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 LOO u older (1GG3), Female figure, Louvre, Paris ; Diana and Nymphs (1048), Berlin Muse- um ; do., Brunswick Museum ; Glass Coral Factory, Copenhagen Gallery ; Women Bathing, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Paris and (Euoue, Dres- den Gallery; Concert in the Open Air, Old Woman Spin- ning, Hermi- tage, St. Peters- burg. Bellier, ii. 024 ; Jal, 79G ; Michicls, x. 22 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 289. LOO, JAN VAN, born at Sluys, Flanders, about 1585, died at Delft after June 27, 1GG1. Dutch school ; the first painter of his name ; registered in guild of Delft, March 19, 1G57. Works : Interior of Glass- Works, Copenhagen Gallery ; Reunion of Drinkers (engraved by Houbraken). Kramm, ii. 1009 ; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 579 ; Michiels, x. 2<>. LOO, JEAN BAPTLSTE VAN, born at Aix, Jan. 11, 1084, died there, Sept. 19, 1745. French school ; history and portrait painter, sou and pupil of Louis van Loo; went to Homo 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 II Rosso and Primaticcio, and executed works for the Hotel de Villo and for many churches ; was in England in 1738-42. Works : Institution of Order of Holy Ghost in 1578, Diana and Endymion (1731), Lou- vre ; Replica of last, Brussels Museum ; Por- traits of Louis XV. (3), Stanislas Lecziuski, Marie Leczinska, and the Engraver Tardieu, Versailles Museum ; Portrait of a Magis- trate, 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 H. 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, Schleiss- heim Gallery ; Triumph of Galatea (1722), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Torment of St. Joseph ; Raising of Lazarus ; De Mailly Archbishop of Aries ; Assembly of the Gods (ceiling) ; Portrait of Prince de Cariguan ; Portrait of the Prince of Piedmont (about 1715) ; Holy Family, Christ giving Keys to St. Peter (1718) ; Allegory on Birth of the .., Dauphin. Ar- // /} V&/^X//OO chives de 1'Art ^ fraucais, Abece- dario, v. 381 ; Argenville, v. 385 ; Bellier, ii. G24 ; Ch. Blanc, cole fran<;aise, iii. ; Dan- dre-Bardon, Vie de J. B. V. (Paris, 1779) ; Larousse, xv. 7GG ; Michiels, x. 37 ; Revue des Deux Mondes (1842), xxi. 494. LOO, (JULES) CKSAR (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 rec- tor in 1790. Works : Tempest, Moonlight (1784); Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli (1785); Sunset (1800) ; Conflagration (1802) ; Snow Landscape (1804), Louvre, Paris ; do., Cher- bourg Museum ; Road from Tivoli to Subi- aco, 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 96