Two drawings by Carle Van Loo preempted by the Louvre

3/4/25 - Acquisitions - Paris, Musée du Louvre - As every year, the Semaine du dessin (Drawing Week) is accompanied by many museum acquisitions. We have already started to talk about them and here we continue with two preemptions by the Graphic Arts department of the Louvre Museum, which is always very active on this occasion. Respectively sold for 33,000 and 20,000 euros, the two portraits by Carle Van Loo (ill. 1 and 2) were acquired at Drouot during the Millon sale on 27 March. These well-known effigies represent two of the painter’s five children, his daughter Marie-Rosalie and most probably his youngest son Jules-César-Denis, unless they are of his second son, Charles, who was a year older. They join the portraits of their parents in the Graphic Arts department, the Self-portrait…