#Louis Michel Van Loo

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Diana in a Landscape

Artist: Louis-Michel van Loo (French, 1707-1771)

Date: 1739

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Description

Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt, sleeps outdoors, leaning on a boulder and wrapped in a leopard skin. She wears her symbol, the crescent moon, on her head and her clothes are of classical inspiration. She is accompanied by her bow and arrows and a hunting horn. Van Loo painted numerous mythological scenes, generally characterized by a certain degree of eroticism. This was in keeping with the tastes of eighteenth-century French art, where such representations facilitated a subtle and sensual depiction of female nudes.

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Louis-Michel van Loo

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Louis Michel van Loo - Portrait of Christine Van Loo, the Artist's Aunt

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Early 1730s dresses and portraits (from top to bottom) -

ca. 1732 The Beautiful Greek (La Belle Grecque) by Nicolas Lancret (Wallace Collection - London, UK). From their Web site 1429X1960, The complex sleeves open at the top like they would in Russian court dresses a century later.

ca. 1732 Watson-Wentworth and Finch Families by Charles Philips (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA) persons. From Wikimedia 4902X3094. The décolletage-filling fichu would become prominent in the Louis XVI era, but just about every grown up woman wears one along with a fastened bodice, round skirt, and apron. The heads of every female are covered by a cap, veil, or hat.

1733 Marie-Geneviève le Tonnellier de Breteuil by French school (attributed to Alexis Simon Belle) (auctioned by Sala de Ventas).From invaluable.com/auction-lot/18th-century-french-school-alexis-simon-belle-a-646-c-2074af1b03 1940X3362.Round skirts flourish on both shores of the channel.

ca. 1730-1735 Lady by Joseph Highmore (National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC, USA). From their Web site 1148X1495. The cuffed outer sleeves are stuffed by under-sleeves and the dress lining has a very subdued pink contrasting with the gold color of the other layer.

1734 Princess Sophie Dorothea with Friedrich Wilhelm by Antoine Pesne (location ?). From Wikimedia1633X2611. Textiles with large patterns characterize the early 1700s. Her dress has a square neckline.suggesting French influence.

ca. 1734 Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by Antoine Pesne (location ?). From Wikimedia 829X11221. The silver brocade over-bodice has a deep V neckline filled in with scoop neckline.

1734 Madame Marie du Tour Vuillard (1695- 1759), née Robin by Louis Michel Van Loo (Tajan - 12-12-12 auction Lot 37), From their Web site; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 2487X3151.

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Elisabetta Farnese by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1739.

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Denis Diderot por Louis Michel van Loo

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Maria Luisa de Borbón-Parma. Por Louis Michel van Loo.

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«El poder que se adquiere a través de la violencia no es más que usurpación, y sólo dura mientras la fuerza del que manda prevalece sobre la de quienes obedecen; de suerte que si estos últimos llegaran a su vez a convertirse en los más fuertes y se sacudieran el yugo, lo harían con idéntico derecho y justicia al impuesto por aquél. La misma ley que ha creado la autoridad, la destruye luego: la ley del más fuerte.»

Diderot: «Autoridad política (1751)», en Escritos políticos. Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, pág. 3. Madrid, 1989.

TGO

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gold + art

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Portraits of the daughters of Charles Emmanuel III and his second wife, Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg

They were done in 1733, by Louis-Michel van Loo. First is five year old Eleonora in blue, then in gold is Maria Luisa who was four, and last in pink is three year old Maria Felicita.

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Princess Maria Felicita di Savoia, 1733 - Louis-Michel van Loo

Wearing a very pink dress with an adorable dog

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Louis-Michel van Loo: Retrato de señora (1756)

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Back to the 1760s, the height of engageantes (from top to bottom) -

ca. 1762 Lady in a Pink Silk Dress by Allan Ramsay (Yale Center for British Art, Yale University - New Haven, Connecticut, USA). From artuk.org 998X1200.

ca. 1762 Woman in Blue (previously known as 'Miss Edgar') by Thomas Gainsborough (Ipswich Borough Council Collection, specific location ? - Ipswich, Suffolk, UK). From artuk.org 1542X1928.

1765-1770 Sophie Charlotte von Haus née von Bennigsen by Johann Georg Ziesenis (Saarland Museum - Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa 732X958.

Lady by Giuseppe Baldrighi (location ?). From tumblr.com/lenkaastrelenkaa; fixed spots w Pshop 1195X1388.

Rosalie Levasseur by Louis Michel van Loo (location ?). From the lost gallery's photostream on flickr; blurred background & fixed spots elsewhere w Pshop 1564X1928.

1769 Madame Francois Buron by Jacques-Louis David (location ?). From tumblr.com/catherinedefrance; fixed cracks & some spots w Pshop 843X1022.

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Louis XV in Coronation Robes by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1760.

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Louis-Michel van Loo • (French, 1707-1771) • Portrait of Maria Teresa of Spain • after 1747

It's a big job to flat-iron a whole queen but she came out marvelous!

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Diana, Goddess of the Hunt 🌙 as Depicted in the 18th Century