Carle Van LOO (Nice 1705 - Paris 1765) Asia Canvas. 81 x 102 cm Our painting is an autograph reproduction (without the camel) of the door top painted by Carle Van Loo for the large salon of Jacques Samuel Bernard in his hotel on the rue du Bac, between 1741 and 1745, now in Jerusalem, The Israel Museum (inv. 171.69). See catalog of the exhibition Carle Van Loo Nice, Clermont-Ferrand, 1977, n° 94 p. 58. The other continents were painted by Dumont le Romain, Natoire and Restout.

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