Double academy of two male nudes

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1740-60

Carle Vanloo
French, 1705-1765

Status: On View, Gallery 124A
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Carle van Loo
Title: Double academy of two male nudes
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1740–1760
Medium: Red chalk on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed, lower right, in red chalk: "Carle Van Loo"; inscribed verso, lower center, in pen and black ink: "Van Loo. Charles-André (dit Carle) / 1705–1765 / Cabinet Pignon-Dijonval no. 3422. du Catalogue"
Dimensions: 44.2 × 51.8 cm (17 3/8 × 20 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2023.2842
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M. Bénard, Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval (Paris: Huzard, 1810), p. 145, no. 3422.
M.-C. Sahut, Carle Vanloo, premier peintre du roi, (Nice, 1705–Paris, 1765) (Nice, 1977), p. 179, cat. no. 605 (ill.).

New York, Colnaghi, with Galerie Cailleux, 18th Century French Drawings, Apr. 20–May 26, 1983, pp. 32–33, cat. 11 (ill.).

Gilbert Paignon-Dijonval (1708–1792), Paris [verso inscription; inv. no. 3422]; by descent to his grandson, Charles-Gilbert, Vicomte Morel de Vinde (1759–1842), Paris [no mark; see Lugt 2520]. Albert Léon Victor Finot (1853–1941), Troyes [his stamp (Lugt 3627), lower right, in black]; by descent to his son, André (1884–1980); sold, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Dec. 6, 1982, lot 160, to Galerie Cailleux, Paris; sold by Colnaghi, New York (in association with Galerie Cailleux), to a private collector, New York, 1983 [according to an email from Mark Brady dated Apr. 19, 2022]; sold through W. M. Brady & Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

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