Attributed to Louis Michel VAN LOO (Toulon 1707 -Paris 1771)
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Canavas in left profile bust
Black stone and white chalk highlights on beige paper
20 x 17 cm oval shape
Slightly insolated
Annotations in a cartel on the mount: "Jean-Baptiste Canavas, pensionnaire du Roy/drawn by Louis Michel Van Loo, equerry knight of the order of Saint Michael, and director of the protected students in the year 1765 the 1st umbre".
Louis Michel is the son of Jean Baptiste, the nephew of Carle and the brother of François and Charles Amédée Van Loo.
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