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Louis-Michel VAN LOO (Toulon, 1707 – Paris, 1771)
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Louis-Michel VAN LOO (Toulon, 1707 – Paris, 1771)
See original version (French)
Estimate €70,000 - €100,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Louis-Michel VAN LOO (Toulon, 1707 – Paris, 1771)
Presumed portrait of Monsieur de Boulogne
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated ‘L.M. Van Loo / 1769’ in the lower left-hand corner
In a richly carved and gilded oak frame, featuring a motif of garlands, oak leaves, ribbons and cartouches with piastre-style mouldings, French work from the Louis XVI period
Presumed portrait of Mr de Boulogne, oil on canvas, signed and dated, by L.-M Van Loo
57.67 x 44.88 in.
146.5 x 114 cm
Provenance: Collection of the Duke of Doudeauville;
Then by descent;
Anonymous sale; Monaco, Sotheby’s, 21–22 June 1991, lot 150;
Acquired at this sale by Karl Lagerfeld;
His sale, New York, Christie’s, 23 May 2000, lot 107;
Acquired at this sale by the current owner;
Private collection, Île-de-France
Bibliography: Christine Buckingham Rolland, Louis-Michel van Loo (1707–1771): member of a dynasty of painters, Ph.D. thesis (unpublished), Santa Barbara, University of California, 1994, p. 285
Louis-Michel VAN LOO (Toulon, 1707 – Paris, 1771)
146.5 x 114 cm
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Old Masters & 19th-century masters
Auction location
Auction time
11/10/2026 at 4:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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