Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (born August 25, 1719 in Rivoli , † November 15, 1795 in Paris ) was a French painter of portraits and allegorical scenes.
Life
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (called Amédée) grew up in Italy, southern France and Paris. He studied with his father Jean-Baptiste van Loo in Turin and Rome . His mother was Marguerite Lebrun (born 1687). In 1738 he won the Prix de Rome of the Paris Academy in Paris. He then went to the family's hometown in Aix-en-Provence before returning to Paris in 1745 . In 1747 he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts. In the same year he married his cousin Marie-Marguerite Lebrun, the daughter of the painter Michel Lebrun. Because of the close family ties, he had to obtain papal permission for the marriage. In 1748 he became a painter at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin and stayed until 1758 when the Prussian king allowed him to return to his homeland in Paris during the Seven Years' War (in which France and Prussia were opponents of the war). After the end of the war in 1763 he returned to Berlin and worked again for Frederick the Great. Even after his return to France in 1769 he received an annual pension from the king. In Paris he exhibited regularly in the salons until the end of his life.
After his arrival in Berlin, he mainly painted portraits, after he had great success with portraits of his own children (painted for Princess Amalie of Prussia ).
In his painting style he used his father's Van Loo palette - two dominant opposing colors and otherwise neutral shades. He liked to use trompe-l'oeil techniques and was later influenced by Dutch genre painting (Van Mieris family). For example, in the National Gallery in Washington DC there is his painting The Camera Obscura (1764) and the painting Soap Bubbles (1764), both of which show the people within an oval frame. The paintings also show his interest in the scientific advancement of the time. A portrait of Frederick the Great in a laurel-wreathed oval frame (on a wall plinth) from 1767 found further dissemination through etchings by Daniel Chodowiecki .
The ceiling painting The Elevation of the Great Elector to Olympus (1751; loss of war) in the marble hall of the City Palace in Potsdam came from him, as was the ceiling painting The Introduction of Ganymede into Olympus (1768) in the marble hall of the New Palace in Potsdam.
His brothers François van Loo (1708–1732) and Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771) were also painters. His mother was also a painter and miniaturist.
gallery
(Selection)
Camera Obscura (1764)
Marquis de Sade (1760)
Diana disarms Cupid
Perseus and Andromeda
Wilhelmine of Hessen-Kassel (1767)
Barometric pressure experiment
The Sultana assigns their work to the Odalisques
The elevation of the Great Elector to Olympus, 1751, loss of the war
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Van Loo's diary, private collection. Quoted from Charles Beddington's website on The unlikely couple
- ↑ Soap Bubbles and Camera Obscura in the National Gallery ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ R. Michaelis: Friedrich the Great in the Mirror of the Works of Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki , perspectivia.net
- ↑ picture index
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Loo, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Loo, Charles-Amédée-Philippe; Loo, Amédée van; Van Loo, Amédée |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1719 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rivoli |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1795 |
| Place of death | Paris |