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 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.

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.

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