# Carle Van Loo artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:11:29.543Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking

## Portrait

![Carle Van Loo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Self-portrait_van_Loo.jpg/1280px-Self-portrait_van_Loo.jpg)
Charles André van Loo · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_van_Loo.jpg

## About Carle Van Loo

Carle Van Loo (1705–1765), also recorded as Charles-André van Loo and Carle Vanloo, was a French painter and printmaker. He belonged to the extensive Van Loo family of artists: available biographical material identifies him as the son of Louis-Abraham van Loo and the younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo. His documented practice covered a notably broad range of subjects, including religious and history compositions, mythology, portraits, allegories, and genre scenes. That breadth helps explain why collectors may encounter his name across different painting subjects as well as in print-related records. It also makes precise entity matching important. Catalogues and authority files use several forms of his name, and the family includes multiple painters whose identities must remain distinct. Appraisal research should therefore reconcile the signature or attribution, name variant, work type, subject, and catalogue record before connecting an object to public auction results.

## Common works and media

Documented work types include paintings and prints. The available biographical overview associates Van Loo with religious and historical compositions, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genre scenes. Because records may appear under Carle Van Loo, Charles-André van Loo, or the surname form Vanloo, searches should account for name variants while keeping other members of the Van Loo family separate.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research for Carle Van Loo should begin by confirming that an attribution refers to Charles-André van Loo rather than another member of the Van Loo family. Comparisons should then be narrowed by work type and subject: a portrait, religious composition, mythological scene, history painting, genre subject, or print may belong to a different market segment. Public auction records, sale dates, and realized prices can provide useful context when genuinely comparable lots are available. The collected source pack does not include detailed major-auction-house analysis, however, so it does not support a general price trend or forecast. Individual results should be interpreted as historical evidence rather than as a guaranteed value for another object.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686597
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/89002333/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/032502095
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500017868
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Andr%C3%A9_van_Loo
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/carle-van-loo/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Self-portrait_van_Loo.jpg