Charles Amedee Philippe Van Loo
French Painter, 1719-1795, was a French painter of allegorical scenes and portraits. He studied under his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, at Turin and Rome, where in 1738 he won the Prix de Rome, then at Aix-en-Provence, before returning to Paris in 1745. He was invited to join the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1747, and that year he married his cousin Marie-Marguerite Lebrun, daughter of the painter Michel Lebrun (died 1753). Among his brothers were the painters Francois van Loo (1708-1732) and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771).
ID: 83031 Der Liebesgott Amor lasst seine Truppen exerzieren Öl auf Leinwand. 92 x 119 cm. Provenienz: Sammlung des Marquis de Marigny, 1763. Sammlung Tilliard, 1782.
Date 18th century
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