Thursday, September 23, 2021

Theodoor van Loon (Brussels Caravaggist)

Theodoor van Loon
Pietà
1623
oil on canvas
Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg
(on long-term loan)

Theodoor van Loon
Virgin and Child enthroned
with St John the Baptist
and St John the Evangelist

before 1649
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Theodoor van Loon
Martyrdom of St Lambert
ca. 1616-17
oil on canvas
private collection

Theodoor van Loon
Assumption of the Virgin
before 1649
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Theodoor van Loon
Assumption of the Virgin (detail)
before 1649
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Theodoor van Loon
Adoration of the Magi
before 1649
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Theodoor van Loon
Adoration of the Shepherds
before 1649
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Theodoor van Loon
Adoration of the Shepherds
before 1649
oil on canvas
private collection

Theodoor van Loon
Adoration of the Shepherds
ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Theodoor van Loon
Suffer the Little Children to come unto Me
before 1649
oil on canvas
private collection

Theodoor van Loon
Holy Family
before 1649
oil on canvas
private collection

Theodoor van Loon
Supper at Emmaus
before 1649
oil on canvas
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Theodoor van Loon
David with the Head of Goliath
before 1649
oil on canvas
private collection

Cornelis Galle the Elder after Theodoor van Loon
Allegorical Title-Page Design
with Mercury and Minerva

ca. 1625
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Theodoor van Loon
ca. 1630-45
engraving
British Museum

"Theodoor van Loon (1581-/82-1649) was one of the first painters from the Southern Netherlands to have been inspired by the example of Caravaggio.  He became one of the most prominent painters of his day, producing important commissions for the court of Archdukes Albert and Isabella, as well as for numerous religious orders in Brussels and its environs.  However, his reputation has since waned."

– from an article published in Apollo Magazine on the 2018 Brussels exhibition, Theodoor van Loon: a Caravaggist Painter between Rome and Brussels