Charles André van Loo

Charles André, known as Carle, van Loo , is a French painter born with Nice the February 15th 1705 and died in Paris the July 15th 1765.

Biography

Charles André van Loo was the son of Louis Abraham van Loo and the brother, of much the junior, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684 - 1745). He knew a brilliant career and became immensely famous, and he is most known of the members of the dynasty of the Van Loo, established in France at the 17th century.

He lost his father at the seven years age and was raised by his brother, Jean-Baptiste. He followed it to Turin, then with Rome during two voyages in Italy (1712 - 1715 and 1716 - 1718) At the time of the second of these stays, he took lessons of drawing with the painter Benedetto Luti and studied under the direction of the sculptor Pierre Legros. During this stay, one lent various romantic and gallant adventures to him which do not empéchêrent it to acquire a great control of its art, while remaining completely illiterate.

He came to Paris in 1720 and produced his first fabric, the Good Samaritan (1723). He assisted his brother on several orders, in particular the restoration of the gallery François Ier of the Château of Fontainebleau (1724), and accepted his first order in 1725 for the Presentation of Christ to the Temple for the chapter room of Saint-Martin-of-Fields. He gained the Prix of Rome in 1724 with Jacob purifying his residence before his departure for Béthel .

A lack of public funds did not enable him to become boarder of the Académie from France to Rome. It had to finance itself its stay in Italy, and at Rome only in May 1728 arrived, at the same time as its future rival François Boucher and his nephews Louis Michel van Loo and François van Loo. In Italy, it was made known by its skill to paint in horn the eye of the ceilings decorated with mythological or religious scenes (for example Glorification of saint Isidore , 1729) and was noticed by the pope Benoît XIII. Its most important work of this period remains its bearing Énée Anchise (1729).

It went back to Turin via Florence in 1732 and worked for the king Charles-Emmanuel III of Sardinia. It painted for him Diane and its nymphs resting with the ceiling of the room of the queen with Stupinigi and a series of fabrics for the Palazzo Reale of Turin.

In 1733, when the War of succession of Poland burst, it went back to Paris where it arrived in 1734. It was approved in August 1734 and member in July 1735 of the royal Académie of painting and sculpture, as a painter of history, with unpleasant Apollon Marsyas .

Its career developed quickly. In 1737, it was named professor with the Academy and worked with a series of overdoor on mythological subjects for the Hôtel of Soubise. Towards 1747, it carried out an allegorical composition representing Asia for the living room of the hotel of Samuel-Jacques Bernard, Rue of the Vat. In parallel, it carried out elegant religious paintings like Saint Charles Borromée giving the communion to the leprous carried out in 1743 for the Saint-Marcel vault of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, the Worship of the Angels (1751) for the vault of the Assumption of the church Saint-Sulpice, or the cycle of seven tables representing the life of Augustin saint for the chorus of the church of the Small-Fathers (1746 - 1755). It could be also made appreciate of elegant and fashionable customers with portraits or “Turkish scenes”, adapting its subjects and its style to the taste of its silent partners.

Van Loo was also supported by the Court and M {{me}} of Pompadour. As of 1736, it painted exotic scenes of hunting for the gallery of the Small Apartments of the King to the Château of Versailles: Hunting for the Bear and Hunting for the Ostrich . In 1744, it painted overdoors for the large cabinet of Dauphine in Versailles. In 1747 - 1748, it carried out two large portraits of the King and the Queen. He also worked in a regular way for Mrs. de Pompadour, and, little before the death of this one, he painted in 1764 an allegory entitled: Arts beseeching the Destiny to save the life of Mrs. de Pompadour .

In April 1749, he became the first governor of the royal School of the protected pupils. He was elected vice-chancellor (1754) then directing of the Academy (June 1763). Anobli and made knight of the Order of Saint-Michel in 1751, it became First painter of the King in June 1762. It made a short stay with London in 1764 and died in 1765 with the ridge of its glory.

Principal works

Carle van Loo worked for the court, the Manufacture of the Goblins, the Church, and also for particular rich person, approaching all the kinds: religious painting, painting of history, subjects mythological or allegorical, portraits and scenes of kind (in particular of the Turkish scenes). Melchior Grimm regarded it as the “first painter of Europe”, and Voltaire put it at equal Raphaël. But as of the end of the 18th century, its star had faded, and the disciples of David invented the insult “vanlotter”.

The technical control of Carle van Loo is undoubtedly exceptional. In the light kind, it is not worth Boucher, its large rival. Its great mythological or religious compositions, though of a quality of execution without fault, miss mystery and of emotion. Remain scenes of kind - with the image of splendid the Halte of hunting (1737) of the Musée of the Louvre - which offers the perfect image dreamed of the “century of Louis XV”.

Mythological scenes and allegories

bearing Énée Anchise , 1729, Paris, Museum of Louvre.
Thésée overcoming the bull of Marathon , v. 1730, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum off Article
Apollo and Marsyas , 1735, Paris, 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts
Persée and Andromède , v. 1735-1740, Saint-Pétersbourg, Museum of the Hermitage.
victory of Alexandre against Porus , 1738, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum off Article
Decoration for the Hotel of Soubise, Street of Francs-Bourgeois, Paris:

Mars and Venus (in situ);
Mercury presenting of the axes to the logger (in situ);
Venus with its toilet (1738, in situ).

Asia , v. 1747, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum
the intoxication of Silène , 1747, Nancy, Museum of the Art schools
New decoration of the Room of the Council of the Castle of Fontainebleau in 1751-1753:

the War ;
the Earth ;
the Value .

Jupiter and Antiope , 1753, Saint-Pétersbourg, Museum of the Hermitage.
painting , the Music , Architecture 1753, San Francisco, Museum of the Art schools.
Neptune and Amymone , v. 1757, Nice, Museum Chéret (paperboard of tapestry).
Neptune and Amymone , v. 1757, Paris, Museum of Louvre (preparatory draft).
the Three Graces , v. 1763, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum off Article
Arts beseeching the Destiny to save the life of Mrs. de Pompadour , 1764, Pittsburg, The Frick Art Museum

Scenes of kind

Hunting for the Bear , 1736, Amiens, Museum of Picardy
Halt of hunting , 1737, Paris, Museum of Louvre.
the lunch on grass after hunting , 1737, New York, Metropolitan Museum off Art.
Pasha making paint his mistress , 1737, Richmond, Virginia Museum off Fine Arts.
the Large Turk giving a concert to his mistress , 1737, London, The Wallace Collection.
Hunting for the Ostrich , 1738, Amiens, Museum of Picardy
Spanish reading , 1754, Saint-Pétersbourg, Museum of the Hermitage.

Religious painting

the Good Samaritan , 1723, Montpellier, Museum Fabre (draft with oil)
Jacob purifying his residence before his departure for Béthel , 1724, nonlocalized
Presentation of Christ to the Temple , 1725, Lyon, Cathedral Midsummer's Day
Glorification of saint Isidore , 1729, Rome, Church San Isidoro
Holy Charles Borromée giving the communion to the leprous , 1743, Paris, Cathedral Notre-Dame
Worship of the Angels , 1751, Brest, Museum of the Art schools
the conversion of Saint-Hubert , 1758, Rambouillet, Saint-Lubin-and-Saint-Jean Church.
worship of the Magi , v. 1760, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum off Article
Virgin blue , 1765, Paris, Church Saint-Merri.
Holy Etienne martyr , Valencians, Museum of the Art schools

Portraits

Marie Leczinska, Queen of France (1703-1768) , 1747, Versailles, Castle of Versailles
Louis XV, King de France and of Navarre , 1748, Versailles, Castle of Versailles
Louis XV, King de France and of Navarre , 1751, Versailles, Castle of Versailles
Marie Leczinska, Queen of France , Versailles, Castle of Versailles
Portrait of Jacques-Germain Soufflot (1714-1781) , Versailles, Castle of Versailles
Portrait of Innocent Guillemette de Rosnyvinen de Pire , 1762, Rennes, Museum of the Art schools

References

Internal bonds

Family van Loo

External bonds

Note on the site of Getty
Carle Vanloo on '' www.artcyclopedia.com ''
Carle Vanloo on '' www.artnet.com ''
Note on Carle Vanloo

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