Carle or Charles-André van Loo was a French painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes.
Self-portrait of Charles-André van Loo
Charles-André van Loo, The Virgin, 1738
Painting, 1752-1753, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Architecture, 1752-1753, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Jacob van Loo was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, chiefly active in Amsterdam and, after 1660, in Paris. Van Loo is known for his conversational groupings; particularly his mythological and biblical scenes generally attributed to the genre of History painting. He was especially celebrated for the quality of his nudes to the extent that, during his lifetime, particularly his female figures were said to have been considered superior and more popular than those of his Amsterdam contemporary and competitor Rembrandt. In 1663, three years after fleeing to Paris, Jacob van Loo was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.
Self-portrait of Jacob van Loo, ca. 1660.
Ariadne (1652). Wilanów Palace, Warsaw
Meebeeck Cruywagen Family, c. 1640-45.
A concert, 1652.