Name: Rare-Antique Master Print-CARLE-VAN-LOO-SELF-PORTRAIT-Demarteau-1788
SKU: PICTURA-09798
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Rare-Antique Master Print-CARLE-VAN-LOO-SELF-PORTRAIT-Demarteau-1788

€495.00

‘CARLE VANLOO PEINTRE DU ROY, ECUYER, DIRECTEUR DES ELEVES / CHEVALIER DE L?ORDRE DE S. MICHEL, PROTEGES PAR SA MAJESTE. / DEDIE A MADAME VANLOO SON EPOUSE.’

– Half-length portrait of Carle Van Loo leaning behind a parapet, holding a pencil in his right hand. Printed in red crayon manner. The portrait is based on a self-portrait by Van Loo and engraved by Demarteau.

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Description

Medium: Crayon manner (printed in brown) on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 35.6 x 48.5 cm (14.02 x 19.09 inch). Image size: 35.6 x 48.5 cm. (14.02 x 19.09 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Trimmed to the image. Remains of paper and tape in rear corners from previous attachment. Light soiling and foxing. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CARLE VAN LOO, GILLES DEMARTEAU, CRAYON MANNER, RED CHALK, 18TH CENTURY, FRENCH PRINT, ACADEMIC PAINTER, SELF-PORTRAIT | PCO-EXPO-PORTRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 35 from Demarteau’s catalogue, published posthumously by his nephew (1788).

Reference: IFF 35; De Leymarie 1896 (no. 35).

Biography engraver: Gilles Demarteau (1722?1776) was a French engraver known for his crayon-manner technique, which imitated red chalk drawings. He published a series of plates after leading artists of the French school.

Biography artist: Carle Van Loo (1705?1765) was a prominent French Rococo painter and director of the Royal Academy. Known for religious and allegorical scenes as well as portraits, he was court painter to Louis XV.