The three princesses of Casa Savoia

For the first time the three portraits of the princesses of casa Savoia made by Louis Michel van Loo in 1733 will be on display at the Museo Accorsi – Ometto.
The opportunity thanks from the recent acquisition by the Accorsi – Ometto Foundation, the painting of Maria Luisa Gabriella.
Daughter of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and Polyxena of Hesse, Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy was born in Turin in 1729.
It was initially intended to marry the Dauphin of France, Louis, son of Louis XV, but not the marriage negotiations were successful and the princess entered the convent of St. Andrew of Chieri, where he died in 1767.
According to the accounts of Savoy, she and her sisters, Maria Felicita Victoria and Eleonora Maria Teresa, were portrayed in 1733 by the then not yet famous, but already skilled, Louis Michel van Loo. The high quality of painting and the constant use of bright colors and well-shaded leaves no doubt that this portrait, together with the other two, identified just go with the paintings.
From the collections of the Duke of Aosta Amedeo of Savoy, the work still has its original frame.

Louis Michel van Loo (Toulon, 1701 - Paris, 1771) was one of the most famous and popular portrait painters of the eighteenth century. He was born into a dynasty of painters native of the Netherlands, active seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Paris, Turin, Madrid and Berlin. Son and pupil of Jean Baptiste, whose works are preserved in Piedmont Turin (Royal Palace) and Rivoli (Castle), in 1728, at the age of twenty-one, he left Paris for Rome. Guest of the French Academy, the young painter he studied Renaissance painting and antique sculpture, showing its potential in a series of portraits of other students of the French Academy.
He returned to Paris in 1730, in 1733 he arrived in Turin to return to France Uncle Carle, who had married in the capital of Savoy in Turin in January 1733 the famous singer Cristina Somis, then stopping to work for the Court of Savoy. Here Louis Michel was commissioned to portray the four children of Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy Victor Amadeus, Maria Luisa Gabriella, Maria Felicita Victoria and Eleonora Maria Teresa. The artist created paintings, pagatigli January 4, 1734, shortly before returning to France, where he would become the official portrait of the royal French and Spanish.
Portraits Savoy is soon lost memory, to the point that for a long time it was thought had been lost. At least until a recent auction, when the four of them, three have been documented. Of these Accorsi-omit if they have won one and, thanks to the availability of the other owners, it was possible to expose them one last time together, inside the museum.
Three extraordinary works, full of charm that fully reveal the artist's ability to smooth drafting of the flesh, the solid quality of the composition and perfect rendering of tissues. To make the paintings, van Loo drew the models of the great French portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud Nicolas Largille. While indulging on an official representation of girls, heirs of an important European dynasty, chose the paintings of raffigurarle very modern and with an almost intimate vein, seizing them each in a different action.
These portraits were looms large image coding infant inside the Savoy court and they guaranteed the artist a special relationship with the Savoy. A report testified by the beautiful portrait that the artist made in Madrid in 1750 Ferdinanda Princess Maria Antonia of Bourbon, who married the same year to Victor Amadeus III, Prince of Piedmont.
Admission to the exhibition is free for the visitors of the museum of decorative arts and for those of Giovanni Battista Quadrone show. A "hyper-realistic" in Piedmontese painting of the nineteenth century.
During the exhibition, Saturday, November 15 at 17:00 there will be a conference:
PRINCESS IN LAYING. Fashion and taste in the eighteenth century at the court of Savoy by Gianluca Bovenzi, the historic fabric.
Admission to the conference is free of charge subject to availability.

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