# Soap Bubbles, in 18th-century France

Charles Amédée Philippe Van Loo painted this in 1764, aged 45. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Three children lean out of a carved stone oval: a boy standing on a chair blows a large bubble through a long straw, a girl in a yellow shawl holds out a white cloth to catch it, and a second boy leans on her shoulder to watch. The girl’s arms and the cloth push forward past the frame, as if into our space.

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## The work

- Date: 1764
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 88.6 x 88.5 cm (34 7/8 x 34 13/16 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945.10.2
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Charles Amédée Philippe Van Loo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/charles-amedee-philippe-van-loo), French, 1719–1795

Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo belonged to a celebrated family of painters: he was the son of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and nephew of Carle van Loo.

2 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Charles Amédée Philippe Van Loo's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-charles-amedee-philippe-van-loo?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Neoclassicism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/neoclassicism?hang=749) (109 works)
- [The 18th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18?hang=749) (347 works)

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