#Louis Michel Van Loo

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

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Maria Luisa of Savoy

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

Title: Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy (1729–1767), daughter of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.

Date: 1733

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Accorsi-Ometto Museum, Turin, Italy

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Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy (25 March 1729 – 22 June 1767) was a princess of Savoy.

Maria Luisa was the second daughter born to the reigning King of Sardinia and his second wife, the German Princess Polyxena of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg who died in 1735, Marie Luisa being just five years of age. She was named after her aunt, Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy (1688–1714) who was Queen of Spain as wife of Philip V of Spain.

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Louis-Michel van Loo (French, 1707 - 1771) Aparece este cuadro en el catálogo de 1830, que dice: “Retrato del 3er Duque de Liria, en más de medio cuerpo, vestido de azul, con un negro a su espalda y señalando el mar.” (This painting appears in the 1830 catalogue, which says: "Portrait of the 3rd Duke of Liria, in more than half length, dressed in blue, with a black man behind him and pointing to the sea), ca. 1725 - 50 Colección de la Fundación Casa de Alba

Jacobo Francisco Eduardo Fitz-James Stuart y Colón de Portugal, 3rd Duke of Berwick, 3rd Duke of Liria and Jérica, 9th Duke of Veragua, 9th Duke of la Vega (28 December 1718 – Valencia, 30 September 1785) was a Spanish Jacobite. On the death of his father, James Fitz-James Stuart, in 1738, he inherited his titles of Duke of Berwick and Duke of Liria and Xerica. (He also possessed many other titles in both Spain and England.) His mother was Spanish, and on her side he was a direct descendant of explorer Christopher Columbus. On 26 July 1738, in Alba de Tormes, he married Maria Teresa de Silva y Alvarez de Toledo (6 May 1716 – 5 May 1790), daughter of Manuel Maria de Silva y Mendoza, (born 18 October 1677), 9th Conde de Galve, 7th son of the 5th Duke of Pastrana and Estremera and of the outstandingly wealthy Maria Teresa Alvarez de Toledo, (18 September 1691 – 1755), 11th Duquesa de Alba de Tormes, 8th duquesa de Huéscar, 4th Duquesa de Montoro, 6th Duquesa de Olivares, 7th Duquesa de Galisteo, Grandee of Spain, and a number of lesser Spanish noble titles (such as Marquessats, Earldoms, Baronetages, Viscountships and Lordships). Their only son to survive to adulthood was Carlos Bernardo Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, (Liria, Valencia, 25 March 1752 – Madrid, 7 September 1787).  Titles: 3rd Duke of Berwick, 3rd Duke of Liria and Xérica, Grandee of Spain 1st Class, 10th Duke of Veragua, 10th Duke of la Vega, 3rd Earl of Tinmouth, 9th Count of Gelves, 3rd Baron Bosworth.

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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.

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Louis Michel van Loo - Denis Diderot

A Very Short Fact: French Philosopher, co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the Encyclopédie Denis Diderot died #OTD 1784.  

“In mid-18th-century France, the Enlightenment philosophes Denis Diderot (1713–84) and Jean D'Alembert (1717–83) published the Encyclopaedia, an edited compendium of knowledge which contained many radical liberal, naturalist, and sceptical ideas. Diderot was an atheist, and both men were highly critical of organized religion. The book was banned before its completion. As an intellectual movement, the Enlightenment has been characterized in a variety of ways. Diderot and D'Alembert defined the Enlightened thinker as one who trampling on prejudice, tradition, universal consent, authority, in a word, all that enslaves most minds, dares to think for himself.” From ‘Humanism: A Very Short Introduction’ by Stephen Law.

[Pg 19 - ‘Humanism: A Very Short Introduction’ by Stephen Law.]

Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Portrait of Denis Diderot (1767) by Louis-Michel van Loo. Musée du Louvre.

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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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El Rey Felipe V de España

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

Date: Circa 1739

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Louis-Michel van Loo

Louis-Michel van Loo was a french painter. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, and he won a prize at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris in 1725. With his uncle, the painter Charles-André van Loo, he went to Rome in 1727–1732, and in 1736 he became court painter to Philip V of Spain at Madrid, where he was a founder-member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1752.

He returned to Paris in 1753, and painted many portraits of Louis XV of France. In 1765 he succeeded Charles-André as director of the special school of the French academy known as the École Royale des Élèves Protégés. In 1766 he made the portrait of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião de Melo, Marquis of Pombal.

Among his brothers were the painters François van Loo (1708–1732) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (1719–1795).

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Marie-Thérèse-Antoinette-Raphaëlle d'Espagne, Dauphine de France (1726-1746). Par Louis-Michel van Loo.

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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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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