Name: CHARLES-ANDRE VAN LOO (NICE 1705-1765 PARIS)
Brand: The Blinding of the Inhabitants of Sodom
Price: 85000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

CHARLES-ANDRE VAN LOO (NICE 1705-1765 PARIS)
The Blinding of the Inhabitants of Sodom
oil on canvas
38¹⁄₄ x 52¹⁄₄ in. (97.2 x 132.6 cm.)

Claude-Philippe Cayeux (1688-1769); his sale (†), Libraire, au bas de la Montagne Sainte Gemevoeve, Paris, 11 December 1769 (=1st day), lot 43, 400 francs to,
Monsieur Martin; his sale, Paris, Musier, 13 December 1773, lot 169.
with Galerie Coatalem, Paris, by 1995, from whom acquired by the following,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 December 2009, lot 188.
with Colnaghi, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.

F.M. Dandrée Bardon, Vie de Carle Vanloo, Paris, 1765, Minkoff reprint, Geneva 1973, pp. 13 and 63, note c, incorrectly described as having been painted in 1728.
P. Rosenberg and M.C. Sahut, Carle Van Loo, Premier Peintre du Roi, exhibition catalogue, Nice, 1977, p. 90, no. 189, under lost works.
B. Debrabandère-Descamps, Les Van Loo, fils d'Abraham, exhibition catalogue, Nice, 2000, p. 59, illustrated.

Boston, Fogg Art Museum, on loan.

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The Blinding of the Inhabitants of Sodom is a recently rediscovered composition from Carle Van Loo’s early career, known previously only from a sketch by Gabriel de St Aubin in the margin of the 1773 sale catalogue, now in the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris. Suggested as either the 1722 or 1724 winning submission to the Prix de Rome by scholars Dandrée Bardon and Pierre Rosenberg, the present work was first purchased by sculptor Philippe Cayeu (1688-1769), whose collection was renowned for its contemporary examples of ‘talented modern artists’ (Cayeu, 1769).