25% discount until 30.11 - Van LOO - Portrait of a Duchess - Louis XV Period -

25% discount to apply until 30.11 - New price: €2887

Portrait of a blue-eyed duchess.
A book in her right hand, in a black coat with ermine lapels.
Her hands are placed on a piece of furniture covered with a drape with a brown-red dynastic coat of arms marked with several crosses in silver thread.

Oil on canvas (relining)
H. 81 - W. 64.5 cm
Louis XV period - 18th century

To be compared for the quality of treatment of the ermine reverse (see photo), and the modeling in the light of the hands and face, to the portrait of Louise Elisabeth of France (1727 - 1759) Infanta of Spain, wife of Philippe de Bourbon, then Duchess of Parma (1745) by Louis - Michel van Loo, from the Prado Museum (POO2281).

Louis Michel VAN LOO (Toulon 1707 - Paris 1771)
From the van Loo dynasty, established in France in the 17th century, Louis Michel van Loo studied under the direction of his father, the painter Jean Baptiste van Loo, in Turin and Rome. He won the prize of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1725 with his "Moses as a child knocking down the crown of Pharaoh".
He then stayed in Rome from 1727 to 1732 with his uncle, the painter Charles André van Loo (1705-1765).
In 1736, he became official painter of the court of Philip V of Spain in Madrid.
He was among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Fernando in 1752.
He returned to France in 1753 and painted several portraits of Louis XV.
In 1765, he succeeded his uncle Charles-André as director of the Royal School of Protected Students.
He is the brother of the painters François van Loo and Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.Email copied

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