Charles-André Vanloo, called Carle Vanloo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)

A woman knitting, seated in a domestic interior

Details

Charles-André Vanloo, called Carle Vanloo (Nice 1705-1765 Paris)
A woman knitting, seated in a domestic interior
signed and dated 'Carle Vanloo 1743'
black and white chalk on blue paper, the lower margin made up
18½ x 12¾ in. (469 x 323 mm.)

Provenance

Aussant Collection; Paris, 15-16 February 1864 (6 francs to the Goncourt brothers).
Jules and Edmond de Goncourt; Paris, 17 February 1897, lot 328 (955 francs to Danlos).
Anonymous sale; Paris, 19 March 1930, lot 156.
Anonymous sale; Paris, 15 December 1949, lot 16 (as Attributed to Vanloo).

Literature

J. and E. de Goncourt, L'Art du 18e siècle, Paris, 1881, I, p. 168.
L. Réau, 'Carle van Loo (1705-1765)', Archives de l'Art français, 1938, p. 80, no. 15.
P. Rosenberg, Dessins français du 17e et 18e siècles de collections américaines, exhib. cat., Ottawa, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972, p. 217, under no. 141.
M.C. Sahut, Carle van Loo, exhib. cat., Nice, Musée Chéret, 1977, no. 407.
E. Launay, Les frères Goncourt collectionneurs de dessins, Paris, 1991, no. 354.

Lot Essay

The Goncourt brothers owned three other large portrait drawings by Vanloo, two of which were like the present drawing dated 1743 (E. Launay, op. cit., nos. 351-353), respectively bought in 1869, 1861 and 1868. Two further drawings are in the Société Historique et Littéraire Polonaise in Paris and in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (M.-C. Sahut, op. cit., nos. 404 and 406) and another three were sold in Paris, 25 April 2003, lot 15-7. All drawings were dated 1743.
These drawings, depicting people seated in an interior, probably represent figures from the artist's immediate circle. Marie-Catherine Sahut suggests that they all posed in Vanloo's studio.

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