The Marriage of the Virgin

c. 1730

Carle Van Loo French, 1705-1765

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Title The Marriage of the Virgin

Artwork Date c. 1730

Artist Carle Van Loo

Life Dates 1705-1765

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 23 3/4 × 15 3/4 inches (60.3 × 40 cm) Framed: 31 × 24 × 3 1/2 inches (78.7 × 61 × 8.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Christophe P. Janet

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F82.200

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Marks Label on stretcher reverse: 447 / X 94 Label on stretcher reverse: Detroy/ J3370 W

Provenance

New York, Julius Weitzner (dealer--by 1972)

Greenville, South Carolina, Collection Bob Jones University, (Purchased from Julius Weitzner in 1972)

New York, auction, (Sotheby Parke-Bernet), 20 November, 1980, lot 94 (as attributed to Nicolas Guy Brenet), bought by Chr. Janet

New York, Christophe P. Janet & Maurice Segoura (dealers, 1980-1982), by whom given to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1982.

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Published References

Nice, Musée Cheret--Clermont-Ferrand, Musée Bargoin--Nancy, Musée des Beaux-Arts, "Carle VanLoo Premier peintre du roi (Nice, 1705- Paris, 1765)", 1977, p. 29, no. 9, repr. (exh. organized by Pierre Rosenberg & Marie-Catherine Sahut).

Naumann, O., "Letter from New York," Tableau, Nov.-Dec. 1981, p. 206, repr.

New York, Maurice Segoura Gallery, "From Watteau to David: a Century of French Art", April 21-June 25, 1982, pp. 28-29, cat. 6, pl. 6.

"Annual Report 1982/83", DIA Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 3, 1983, pp. 14, 20, fig. 13.

Paris, Musée du Luxembourg-Rome, Villa Medici, "Subleyras", 1987, p. 171, fig. 2 (cited under cat. 16, a drawing of the same subject by Subleyras now in the Louvre. The DIA picture is erroneously still cited as in the collection of Bob Jones University).

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