elder (1663), Female figure, Louvre, Paris; Diana and Nymphs (1648), Berlin Museum; do., Brunswick Museum; Glass Coral Factory, Copenhagen Gallery; Women Bathing, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Paris and Œnone, Dresden Gallery; Concert in the Open Air, Old Woman Spinning, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Bellier, ii. 624; Jal, 796; Michiels, x. 22; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 289.
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LOO, JAN VAN, born at Sluys, Flanders, about 1585, died at Delft after June 27, 1661. Dutch school; the first painter of his name; registered in guild of Delft, March 19, 1657. Works: Interior of Glass-*Works, Copenhagen Gallery; Reunion of Drinkers (engraved by Houbraken).—Kramm, ii. 1009; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 579; Michiels, x. 26.
LOO, JEAN BAPTISTE VAN, born at
Aix, Jan. 11, 1684, died
there, Sept. 19, 1745.
French school; history
and portrait painter,
son and pupil of Louis
van Loo; went to Rome
about 1717, taking
with him his brother
Carle, studied with
Benedetto Luti, and in
1719 accompanied his
patron, the Prince de Carignan, to Paris,
where his works were soon in great demand.
Received into the Academy in 1731; adjunct
professor, 1733. He restored the gallery
of Francis I. at Fontainebleau, painted by
Il Rosso and Primaticcio, and executed
works for the Hôtel de Ville and for many
churches; was in England in 1738-42.
Works: Institution of Order of Holy Ghost
in 1578, Diana and Endymion (1731), Louvre;
Replica of last, Brussels Museum; Portraits
of Louis XV. (3), Stanislas Leczinski,
Marie Leczinska, and the Engraver Tardieu,
Versailles Museum; Portrait of a Magistrate,
Aix Museum; Portrait of Louis XV.,
Amiens Museum; do., Nancy Museum;
Rinaldo and Armida, Angers Museum;
Woman on a Couch, Montargis Museum;
Portrait of Victor Amadeus II. of Savoy—first
king of Sardinia, Montpellier Museum;
Holy Family, Dominican Church, Toulon;
Portraits of Louis XV. and Marie Leczinska,
Massacre of Zedekiah's Children, Darmstadt
Museum; Allegory on Happiness, Schleissheim
Gallery; Triumph of Galatea (1722),
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Torment of St.
Joseph; Raising of Lazarus; De Mailly—Archbishop
of Arles; Assembly of the Gods
(ceiling); Portrait of Prince de Carignan;
Portrait of the Prince of Piedmont (about
1715); Holy Family, Christ giving Keys to
St. Peter (1718); Allegory on Birth of the
Dauphin.—Archives
de l'Art
français, Abecedario,
v. 381; Argenville, v. 385; Bellier,
ii. 624; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.; Dandré-Bardon,
Vie de J. B. V. (Paris, 1779);
Larousse, xv. 766; Michiels, x. 37; Revue
des Deux Mondes (1842), xxi. 494.
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LOO, (JULES) CÉSAR (DENIS) VAN, born in Paris in 1743, died there, July 1, 1821. French school; landscape painter, son and pupil of Carle; received into the Academy in 1784, and became adjunct rector in 1790. Works: Tempest, Moonlight (1784); Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli (1785); Sunset (1800); Conflagration (1802); Snow Landscape (1804), Louvre, Paris; do., Cherbourg Museum; Road from Tivoli to Subiaco, Similar view, Fountain of Aqua Autosa, Ponte Molo; Campagna, Toulouse Museum; Two landscapes, Turin Gallery.—Bellier, ii. 628.
LOO, LOUIS VAN, born at Amsterdam
about 1641, died at Aix in 1713. Dutch
school; history painter, son and pupil of
Jakob van Loo; went early to France, won
first prize in Academy, of which he would
have become a member had he not been
