Detail View: The AMICA Library: Final Published Work: Allegory of Painting, c.1755, oil on canvas, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

AMICA ID: 
AIC_.1959.529
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Loo, Carle van
Creator Nationality: 
European; French
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
French; 1705-1765
Creator Name-CRT: 
Carle van Loo
Title: 
Study: Head of a Young Girl Facing to the Right
Title Type: 
preferred
Title: 
Young Girl Facing to the Right
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Facing Right
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Final Published Work: Allegory of Painting, c.1755, oil on canvas, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Title Type: 
alternate
View: 
full view
Creation Date: 
=before 1755 wkg amr
Creation Start Date: 
1705
Creation End Date: 
1755
Materials and Techniques: 
Medium: Pastel, with touches of red chalk, over touches of graphite, on blue laid paper, laid down on blue laid paper.
Classification Term: 
pastel
Classification Term: 
Drawing
Classification Term: 
Prints and Drawings
Creation Place: 
Europe,France
Dimensions: 
Height: 229 mm., Width: 183 mm.
AMICA Contributor: 
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 
1959.529
Credit Line: 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Rights: 
Context: 
This drawing is a preparatory study for "Allegory of Painting", one painting in a series of four dedicated to the fine arts. Commissioned by Madame de Pompadour for the Chateau de Bellevue, these paintings were exhibited at the Salon of 1755 and are now in the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.
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