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Theodoor van Loon<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

Erkelenz 1581 ou 1582 \u2013 Maastricht 1649<\/p>\n

The Assumption of the Virgin<\/em>, recto; Studies of legs<\/em>, verso<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oil on paper.<\/p>\n

360 x 265 mm – 14 3\/16 x 10 7\/16 in.<\/p>\n

Provenance –\u00a0Dreweatts auction, Newbury (Berkshire), 28\/04\/2015; England, private collection.<\/p>\n

Exhibition – Theodoor Van Loon, un caravagesque entre Rome et Bruxelles, <\/em>Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), 10 October 2018-13 January 2019 ; Luxembourg, Mus\u00e9e national d’histoire et d’art (MNHA), 15 February 2019 – 26 May 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Literature –\u00a0Galerie Marty de Cambiaire, Tableaux<\/em>, 2016, n\u00b0 1, p. 6-9\u00a0; Theodoor Van Loon,\u00a0<\/em>exh. cat. ed. by Sabine van Sprang, Bozar Books, Fonds Mercator, 2019, no. 35, entry by Sabine van Sprang, p. 180-181, ill. p. 183.<\/p>\n

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This beautiful oil on paper is a preparatory study for the altar representing the Assumption of the Virgin<\/em><\/a> painted by Theodoor van Loon around 1617, when it was donated to adorn the main altar of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Grand Beguinage in Brussels (located today at Mus\u00e9es royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels).<\/p>\n

Another preparatory study at the Mus\u00e9e communal de Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (Brussels, 103 x 74 cm) is very close to the final painting, but of uneven quality. It is maybe a studio work painted at \u201can intermediate stage to be placed between an initial modello, now lost and which would have been made by van Loon alone, and the monumental painting\u201d or \u201ca sort of a workshop exercise\u201d made after the painted version (Jana Sanyova, Sabine van Sprang, Hel\u00e8ne Dubois, Catherine Van Herck and Marie-Annelle Mouffe, \u201cLa technique picturale de Van Loon: une premi\u00e8re approche,\u201d Theodor van Loon, \u201cpictor ingenius\u201d et contemporain de Rubens<\/em>, Cahiers des Mus\u00e9es royaux des Beaux-arts de Belgique, Brussels, 2011, p. 88).<\/p>\n

Our sketch, which shows major variations compared both with the final work and with the one in Molenbeek, is certainly this modello. The overall composition is already in place : in the upper \u2013 celestial \u2013 part, the Virgin is accompanied by angels and cherubs, one of them holding tendrils in reference to the former name of the beguinage, Notre-Dame de la Vigne, while in the lower \u2013 terrestrial \u2013 part, the apostles and female saints are gathering around the empty tomb. The emphasis on the women placed on the foreground indicates that the work was destined for a female community.<\/p>\n

There are considerable changes in the female figures between this modello and the final work : their faces are turned differently, and two of them are reversed. At this stage of the process their identity is not totally clear: although Mary Magdalen is easily identifiable thanks to her long hair and\u00a0 St. Dorothy her basket of flowers, the woman holding a book, maybe St. Barbara, is not as easily identifiable in the modello. Wearing a turban in the painting, she has become, by an interesting syncretism between classical wisdom and Christian doctrine, a sibyl very much inspired by those of Domenichino.<\/p>\n

The somewhat succinct treatment of the figures\u2019 bodies and the presence of pentimenti, such as the one visible on Mary Magdalen\u2019s right arm, indicate that this modello belongs to the phase of research and elaboration of the definitive composition.<\/p>\n

A more detailed study is available on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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