Venus Requesting Vulcan to make Arms for Aeneas
Carle van Loo, French, 1705 - 1765
about 1735
Oil on canvas
Overall: 50 13/16 × 38 3/4 in. (129 × 98.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from Jane and W. David Dance, Class of 1940 and the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2005.2
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
On view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: Carle Vanloo
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013
WRIT 5, Expository Writing, Carl Thum, Winter 2013
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Katie Hornstein, Jane Carroll, Winter 2013
CLST 4, Classical Mythology, Pramit Chaudhuri, Summer 2014
WRIT 5, Writing About Art, Brett Gamboa, Fall 2014
ARTH 48, Rococo to Neoclassicism, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2014
ARTH 48, Art & Society in the Age of the Rococo, Kristin O'Rourke, Winter 2016
HUM 2, The Modern Labyrinth, Timothy Baker, Winter 2020
CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2020
ITAL 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
ITAL 1.03, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Fall 2022
Italian 1.02, Introductory Italian I, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Giorgio Alberti, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen, Winter 2023
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Andrea Zoller, Winter 2023
Italian 2.02, Introductory Italian II, Matteo Gilebbi, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
Carle Vanloo: Premier Peintre du Roi, Musee Municipal, Nice, France, no. 39, January-August 1977.
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 30, 2008-March 8, 2009.
Flesh and Desire [curated by Art History II Professors Jane Carroll and Katie Hornstein], Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth Collection January 7-March 4, 2013.
From Altarpiece to Portrait: Assembling a European Collection, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-September 6, 2020.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20, 2009-August 2013.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 20, 2005-January 14, 2008.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 1-May 8, 2005.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 19, 2013-present.
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachussets, March 15, 2016-June 30, 2018.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 18, ill. p. 19, cat. no. 1.
M.-F. Dandre-Bardon, Vie de Carle Vanloo, 1765, p. 63.
L. Reau, Carle Vanloo (1705-1765), Archives de l'Art Francais, nouvelle periode 19, 1938, p. 65, no. 105.
C.B. Bailey, The Loves of the Goods, exhibition catalogue, Paris-Philadelphia-Fort Worth, 1991, pp. 384 and 387, note 19.
T. Barton Thurber, Twenty Years of Building a Collection: The Hood Museum of Art, Apollo (Vol. 162, no. 526), December 2005, London: Apollo Magazine, 2005, pp. 46-53, ill. p.46 and p.51.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, pp. 64-65, ill. p.64, no. 24.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 98, ill. plate no. 29.
Provenance
Collection of Claude-Adrien Helvétius (1715-1771); by descent to Geneviève-Adélaïde Helvétius (1754-1817), château de Voré, Rémalard, France; Comte d'Andlau, château de Voré, Rémalard, France; sold Christie's New York, January 27, 2000, lot 46; where acquired by Michael L. Rosenberg (1947-2003), Dallas, Texas; from whose collection sold Christie's, New York, Sale 1477, lot 44, Janaury 26, 2005; where sold to present collection, 2005.
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