Portrait Of Louis XV, Michel Van Loo End Of 18th Century

Portrait of Louis XV, King of France and Navarre.
He is represented three-quarter-length wearing armor, a fleurdelisé coat lined with ermine as well as the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Oil on canvas in very good condition, previously re-lined. In a Louis XIV frame in gilded wood.
(Note that the frame of the canvas is slightly larger than the rebate of the frame).
Dimensions of the painting with the frame 78x95 cm

This portrait was made by a close pupil or by a follower of Louis-Michel Van Loo, author of the original portrait painted in the third quarter of the 18th century today at the Château de Versailles and of which the Louvre also retains some replicas.
The replicas of the portraits of kings and queens, as well as of the daughters and sons of France were intended to adorn the castles, the mansions of the members of the court and the nobles of the provinces. They were mostly painted by the painter's studio which employed many students under the direction of the master.

France, late 18th century.

Coming from the van Loo dynasty, established in France in the 17th century, Louis Michel van Loo (1707-1771) studied under the direction of his father, the painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo, in Turin and Rome. He won the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture Prize in 1725 with his infant Moses dropping Pharaoh's crown. He then stayed in Rome from 1727 to 1732 with his uncle, the painter Charles André van Loo (1705-1765).

In 1736, he became official court painter to Philip V of Spain in Madrid. He was among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in 1752.

He returned to France in 1753 and painted several portraits of Louis XV.

In 1765, he succeeded his uncle Charles-André as director of the Royal School for Protected Pupils.

He is the brother of the painters François van Loo and Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo.

Main works:

The family of Philip V, 1743, Madrid, Prado Museum.
Philippe V, King of Spain, and his family, 1743, Versailles, Musée national du château (sketch).
Philippe V, King of Spain, 1745, Versailles, Musée national du château (replica; another replica at the Parma museum).
Elisabeth Farnese, Queen of Spain, 1745, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Marie Thérèse Antoinette Raphaelle of Spain, Dauphine of France, Versailles, National Museum of the Castle.
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, 1753, Paris, Comédie-Française.
Carle van Loo and his family, 1757, Paris, School of Decorative Arts.
Portrait of an officer, Count of Vaux, 1759, Musée des beaux-arts de Nice, on deposit of the Musée de Versailles (MV 4426).
Louis XV, King of France and Navarre, 1760, Versailles, Musée national du château. Replica at the Bernard-d'Agesci museum in Niort.
Portrait of Louis XV, oil on canvas, 80 x 65 cm, on deposit from the Louvre museum, Gray (Haute-Saône), Baron-Martin museum.
Louis-Michel van Loo and his sister near the portrait of their father, 1762, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Louis-Michel van Loo painting the portrait of his father, 1762, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Étienne-François, Duke of Choiseul-Stainville, 1763, Versailles, National Museum of the castle.
Portrait of the Duke of Choiseul (1719-1785), oil on canvas, 79 x 65 cm, on deposit from the Louvre museum, Gray (Haute-Saône), Baron-Martin museum.
Portrait of Carle van Loo, 1764, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Donna velata (Veiled Woman), circa 1766, Rome, Palazzo Venezia.
Denis Diderot, writer, 1767, Paris, Musée du Louvre.
Germain Soufflot, 1767, Paris, Louvre Museum.
Laure de Fitz-James, Princess of Chimay, 1767, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis de Pombal, 1767, Oeiras, Palácio da Câmara Municipal, Portugal.
Louis Phélypeaux, Count of Saint-Florentin, Duke of La Vrillière, 1769, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Portrait of Jean Rodolphe Perronet, Paris, Louvre museum.
The Spanish Concert, 1768, Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum.
Portrait of the Marquis de Marigny and his wife, 1769, Paris, Musée du Louvre.
Louis-Auguste, Duc de Berry, 1769, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Philippe de France, count of Artois, 1770, Versailles, Musée national du château.
Louis XVIII, then Count of Provence, 1770, Epinal Museum. Replica from 1771 at the Palace of Versailles.
Portrait of Louis XV, The Bowes Museum.
Portrait of the knight Jacques de Heusy, 1771, King Baudouin Foundation.
Portrait of Nicolas Beaujon, The Jacquemart-André Collection, Chaalis Abbey Museum