Lot 52
Charles-André, called Carle, Van Loo (French, 1705-1765), "A Sleeping Shepherd", probably c. early 1760s, red chalk (and graphite sketches of a left hand, and a head, at top right), inscribed in umber ink by a mid-18th c. hand "VanLoo Père" at bottom, on cream-colored laid paper with untranslated watermark in four lines (beneath right arm), and countermark of a symbol (above left knee), with punctures for stitching on right edge, 12 1/2 in. x 17 in., in a modern mount, extensively numbered and inscribed Provenance: Art Market, New York; James R. Lamantia, Jr., New Orleans and New York. Note: The most illustrious member of a famous five-generation dynasty of French draftsmen and painters originally from Flanders, Carle Van Loo is here contemporaneously labeled as "Père" to distinguish him from his son Jules-César-Denis Van Loo (1743-1821, then in his twenties), who emigrated to Turin-like his father-and painted at the Piedmontese court. Carle, born at Nice, was trained at Turin from 1712 and Rome from 1714, where he studied with the sculptor Pierre Legros II (1666-1719), who was particularly celebrated for his fine drawings. Upon moving to Paris in 1719, Carle himself won a first prize in drawing from the Académie Royale in 1723, and was awarded the coveted Prix de Rome in 1724. Another of his drawings took first prize at the Accademia di San Luca in 1728, and he began to demonstrate the stylistic eclecticism...
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