25\? discount until 30.11 - Nicolas Loir - Virgin and Child - 17th Century School

25% discount to apply until 30.11 - New price: €3975

French school of the 17th
Nicolas LOIR workshop
Reprise of the engraving of Alexis Loir, taking up the original composition of his brother Nicolas
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
41.5 x 34
53 x 46 with frame

Very beautiful carved and gilded oak frame from the Louis XIV period

Nicolas Pierre Loyr known as Nicolas Loir (1624 - 1679)
In 1647, he went to Italy where he discovered the work of Nicolas Poussin. Inspired by the Master, he achieved great success with his Darius visiting the tomb of Semiramis.
The copies he made of Poussin's works were often mistaken for originals.

Back in France, he made in 1650 for the Compagnie des orfèvres a May for Notre Dame de Paris.
He received commissions from individuals, painted altarpieces and paintings for religious buildings: and decorations for private interiors:
He himself painted and engraved several Sainte Famille.
He entered the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture with the support of Charles le Brun and Louis XIV.
He was successively a professor, then assistant and rector.
A pensionary of the king from 1668 with a pension of 4000 livres, he worked at the Manufacture des Gobelins, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the Tuileries, where he made several ceilings that have now disappeared, as well as at Versailles where he made seven paintings for the apartment of Queen Marie Thérèse, one of which is kept at the Musée de Brou in Bourg en Bresse.
It was to take up a challenge between painters that he bet to succeed in treating a subject in more than three different ways without any resemblance, he succeeded in one day in making twelve Holy Families all different.
Dézallier d'Argenville tells us that he was a man of a gentle and modest temperament, deeply honest, highly esteemed by his contemporaries.
His pupil was François de Troy. The email has been copied

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