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(2) Johann Carl Loth [Carlotto]
(b Munich, 1632; d Venice, 1698). Son of (1) Johann Ulrich Loth. As an apprentice of his father in Munich, he came into early and crucial contact with 17th-century Roman painting, before himself going to Rome, some time after 1653. In Venice, from 1656, he worked initially in the studio of Pietro Liberi, then in that of Giovanni Battista Langetti, within whose sphere he found a new direction. He was also a close friend of the painter Antonio Zanchi of Este. Johann Carl chiefly executed altar and easel pictures dominated by the nude figure. He early attained renown and an international clientele. His painting Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis (Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.) was purchased before 1659 by the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, and many of his works were subsequently bought by monarchs and ambassadors. For example the Good Samaritan (1697; Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.; see fig. 1) was painted for Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick’s gallery in Salzdahlum.
Part of the Loth family
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