Judith Noorman is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Amsterdam and leads the Dutch Research Council project The Female Impact, 2021–2026. As Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Studies in Early Modernity, she has organized the Object Colloquia Series, which laid the foundation for this book.

"Art, Honor and Success in the Dutch Republic: The Life and Career of Jacob van Loo makes many noteworthy contributions to our understanding of Van Loo’s career and art within the cultural milieus of the Dutch Republic and Paris."-Wayne Franits, HNA Review of Books, July 2020

• Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 - Life, The State of Flanders: Where Wolves Outnumbered Men, The Hague, The Affluent Bachelor, Settling Down, Moving Up, Great Success, Manslaughter, Starting Over in Saint-Germain, The Royal Academy, The Ambassador Artist, Founder of the Van Loo Dynasty, Chapter 2 - Artistic Output, Training, Studio Practice, Authenticity, History on a Grand Scale, Cabinet Pictures, Fashionable Portraiture, Paris, 1661-70, Chapter 3 - Clientele, Archival Data, Clientele, Portraiture in Amsterdam, Figure Paintings in Amsterdam, Portraits in Paris, Enduring Relationships, The Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family, The Huygens Family, Chapter 4 - The Academic Nude and its Audience, Documentary Evidence on Amsterdam's Academies, European Art Academies, The Theory of 'Welstant', The Surviving Academic Drawings, Two Groups of Academic Draftsmen, Empathy versus 'Welstant', Dutch Classicism: The Art of Standing Well, Van Loo's Academic Mode, An Audience for the Academic Nude, Chapter 5 - The Manslaughter Case, Homicide: A Matter of Honor, 31 October 1660, Van Loo's Legal Case, Pardon Ante Sententiam, Friendship, Van Loo's 'Honorable' Homicide, Support from the Huydecoper-Hinlopen Family, 'His Reputation regarding his Morality', Homicide in a European Context, Appendices, A List of Works, B List of Early Owners, C Transcriptions, Notes, Bibliography, List of illustrations, Photocredits, Index