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CHARLES-ANDRE VAN LOO (NICE 1705-1765 PARIS)
Lot 191

CHARLES-ANDRE VAN LOO (NICE 1705-1765 PARIS)

The Blinding of the Inhabitants of Sodom

Closed8 July 2022

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GBP 107,100

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CHARLES-ANDRE VAN LOO (NICE 1705-1765 PARIS)
The Blinding of the Inhabitants of Sodom
oil on canvas
38 1⁄4 x 52 1⁄4 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.

Specialist note

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).

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