Cesar Van Loo painted rivers, ruined aqueducts and bathers set deep in open country, and that quiet outdoor world is what carries his work so well into counted cross stitch.
He was French, born in 1743 and died in 1821, and he came from a family name that meant something in painting long before he picked up a brush. Landscape was where he settled. A crumbling aqueduct above a river, figures wading in the shallows of a wide valley, the kind of scene that asks the eye to wander rather than settle on one face. He did turn to portraiture at times, and his likeness of the Marquis d'Ossun from around 1780 is the one most often seen today. Beyond the paintings themselves, he is not a name the art histories say a great deal about.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, Cesar Van Loo art prints are easy to find.
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