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Charles-Antoine Coypel

January 01, 1970

Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 July 1694 – 14 June 1752) was a French painter, art critic, and playwright. He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale. He inherited the title of Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi (Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king), a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. He was mainly active in Paris.[1]

Charles-Antoine Coypel
Self-portrait (1734)
Born11 July 1694
Paris, Kingdom of France
DiedJune 14, 1752(1752-06-14) (aged 57)
Paris, Kingdom of France
EducationAntoine Coypel
Parents
  • Antoine Coypel (father)
  • Marie-Jeanne Bidault (mother)
RelativesNoël Coypel (grandfather), Noël-Nicolas Coypel (half-uncle), Philippe Coypel (brother)
Director of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
In office
1747–1752
MonarchLouis XV
Preceded byPierre-Jacques Cazes
Succeeded byLouis de Silvestre

Life edit

 
Self-Portrait with his son, Charles-Antoine (1698) by Antoine Coypel

Coypel was born in Paris on 11 July 1694 to a highly successful and influential family of history painters. His grandfather, Noël Coypel, had been Director of the French Academy in Rome as well as the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.[2] Antoine Coypel, Charles-Antoine's father, received numerous commissions from the French Royal Family, particularly Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. He would also become Director of the Académie Royale in 1714 and Premier Peintre du Roi the following year.[3] Philippe Coypel (1703-1777), Antoine Coypel's second son, would become the King's valet de chambre.[4]

Coypel would live in the Louvre Palace for almost his entire life, beginning when he was three years old, when his father received a brevêt de logement (residence permit) in 1697. His family's quarters comprised at least fifteen rooms beneath the Grande Galerie as well as a three thousand square foot studio space, all of which Coypel would eventually inherit.[5]

Under the tutelage of his father, Coypel showed a genuine talent for painting early in life.[6] He had the rare distinction of being named an agréé and subsequently an académicien by the Académie Royale on the same day in 1715 for his reception work Jason and Medea. Coypel was just twenty-one years old, but he had skipped the customary journey to Rome made by history painters, and perhaps more importantly, his father was Director at the time.[7]

He inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi (First Painter to the King) at the French court when his father died in 1722. He became Premier Peintre du Roi and Director of the Académie Royale in 1747. He worked on several commissions for paintings for the royal Palace of Versailles, and for Louis XV and his wife, Queen Marie Leczinska.[8]

Work edit

Coypel was an excellent tapestry designer. He designed tapestries for the Gobelins manufactory. His most successful tapestries were created from a series illustrating Don Quixote.[8] Coypel was the first to illustrate Don Quixote in a sophisticated manner. These illustrations were painted as cartoons for tapestries, and were engraved and published in a deluxe folio in Paris in 1724.[9] Coypel created twenty-eight small paintings for these tapestries over a number of years. Each of the paintings was used as the centrepiece of a larger area that was richly decorated with birds, small animals, and garlands of flowers on a patterned background. Over two hundred pieces of the Don Quixote series were woven between 1714 and 1794.[10] He received a commission to design a series of theatrical scenes for tapestries for the queen of Poland in 1747.[8] Coypel also wrote prose, several comedies, two tragedies, and some poetry.[8]

Alongside his painting career, Coypel wrote some forty plays between 1717 and 1747. Only Les Folies de Cardenio (1720) was published. It was staged at the Tuileries Palace in 1721. In La Poésie et la Peinture (Allegory of Painting), allegorical comedy in three acts, the artist compared the qualities of both arts. The painter also realized works on the theme of the theater, including portraits of the Comédie-Française players Charlotte Desmares and Adrienne Lecouvreur.

Selected works edit

Gallery edit

  • Works by Charles-Antoine Coypel
  •  
    Fury of Achilles (1737)
  •  
    Self-portrait (1739)
  •  
    Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife (1742)

References edit

  1. ^ Craske, Matthew, 1997, Art in Europe 1700-1830: A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-284206-4, p. 145.
  2. ^ Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin (2003). "Coypel, Noël". Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  3. ^ Garnier, Nicole (2003). "Coypel, Antoine". Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Philippe Coypel (1703-1777), valet de chambre du roi, frère de l'artiste". collections.louvre.fr (in French). Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  5. ^ Bell, Esther (Fall 2016). "A Curator at the Louvre: Charles Coypel and the Royal Collections". Journal18. Louvre Local (2). doi:10.30610/2.2016.6.
  6. ^ "Coypel, Charles Antoine". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford University Press. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00043957. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  7. ^ Stein, Perrin (April 2001). "A Newly Discovered Pastel by Charles Coypel". The Burlington Magazine. 143 (1177): 220–223 – via JSTOR.
  8. ^ a b c d Charles-Antoine Coypel 2007-03-14 at the Wayback Machine The Getty Museum.
  9. ^ Paulson, Ronald, 1998, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-5695-7, p.45.
  10. ^ Jenkins, D.T., 2003, The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-34107-8, p.612.
  11. ^ "Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife". artic.edu. Retrieved 28 July 2023.

Further reading edit

General studies edit

Adapted from a following source: Freitag, Wolfgang M. (1997) [1985]. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists (2nd ed.). New York, London: Garland. p. 79, entries nos. 2340–2343. ISBN 0-8240-3326-4.

  • Ingersoll-Smouse, Florence (1920). "Charles-Antoine Coypel". La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne (in French). 37: 143–154, 285–292 – via Gallica.
  • Jamieson, Irene (1930). Charles-Antoine Coypel, premier peintre de Louis XV et auteur dramatique (1694-1752) (in French). Paris: Hachette. OCLC 490338910.
  • Lefrançois, Thierry (1994). Charles Coypel: Peintre du Roi : 1694-1752 (in French). Preface by Pierre Rosenberg. Paris: Arthéna. ISBN 2-903239-18-5. OCLC 231852472.

Reference works edit

  • Barker, Emma (1996). "Charles-Antoine Coypel". In Turner, Jane (ed.). The Dictionary of Art. Vol. 8. New York: Grove's Dictionaries. pp. 92–93. ISBN 1-884446-00-0. OCLC 1033653438 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Blumer, Marie-Louise (1961). "Coypel (Charles-Antoine)". In Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles; et al. (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 9. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 1146–1147.
  • Cornu, Paul [in French] (1913). "Coypel, Charles-Antoine". In Thieme, Ulrich (ed.). Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. Vol. 8. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann. pp. 26–28. OCLC 1039527588 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Gallenkamp, George V. (1969). "Coypel, Charles-Antoine". In Myers, Bernard S. (ed.). McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art. Vol. 2. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 166. OCLC 1231684719 – via the Internet Archive.
  • Lefrançois, Thierry (1999). "Coypel, Charles". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (in German). Vol. 22. München, Leipzig: Saur. pp. 99–101. ISBN 3-598-22762-0.

Vignon, Charlotte (2015). Coypel's Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France. New York: The Frick Collection. ISBN 9780912114620. OCLC 890792980.

 
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Charles Antoine Coypel 11 July 1694 14 June 1752 was a French painter art critic and playwright He became court painter to the French king and director of the Academie Royale He inherited the title of Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king s art collection He was mainly active in Paris 1 Charles Antoine CoypelSelf portrait 1734 Born11 July 1694Paris Kingdom of FranceDiedJune 14 1752 1752 06 14 aged 57 Paris Kingdom of FranceEducationAntoine CoypelParentsAntoine Coypel father Marie Jeanne Bidault mother RelativesNoel Coypel grandfather Noel Nicolas Coypel half uncle Philippe Coypel brother Director of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de SculptureIn office 1747 1752MonarchLouis XVPreceded byPierre Jacques CazesSucceeded byLouis de Silvestre Contents 1 Life 2 Work 3 Selected works 4 Gallery 5 References 6 Further reading 6 1 General studies 6 2 Reference worksLife edit nbsp Self Portrait with his son Charles Antoine 1698 by Antoine Coypel Coypel was born in Paris on 11 July 1694 to a highly successful and influential family of history painters His grandfather Noel Coypel had been Director of the French Academy in Rome as well as the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture 2 Antoine Coypel Charles Antoine s father received numerous commissions from the French Royal Family particularly Philippe II Duke of Orleans He would also become Director of the Academie Royale in 1714 and Premier Peintre du Roi the following year 3 Philippe Coypel 1703 1777 Antoine Coypel s second son would become the King s valet de chambre 4 Coypel would live in the Louvre Palace for almost his entire life beginning when he was three years old when his father received a brevet de logement residence permit in 1697 His family s quarters comprised at least fifteen rooms beneath the Grande Galerie as well as a three thousand square foot studio space all of which Coypel would eventually inherit 5 Under the tutelage of his father Coypel showed a genuine talent for painting early in life 6 He had the rare distinction of being named an agree and subsequently an academicien by the Academie Royale on the same day in 1715 for his reception work Jason and Medea Coypel was just twenty one years old but he had skipped the customary journey to Rome made by history painters and perhaps more importantly his father was Director at the time 7 He inherited his father s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi First Painter to the King at the French court when his father died in 1722 He became Premier Peintre du Roi and Director of the Academie Royale in 1747 He worked on several commissions for paintings for the royal Palace of Versailles and for Louis XV and his wife Queen Marie Leczinska 8 Work editCoypel was an excellent tapestry designer He designed tapestries for the Gobelins manufactory His most successful tapestries were created from a series illustrating Don Quixote 8 Coypel was the first to illustrate Don Quixote in a sophisticated manner These illustrations were painted as cartoons for tapestries and were engraved and published in a deluxe folio in Paris in 1724 9 Coypel created twenty eight small paintings for these tapestries over a number of years Each of the paintings was used as the centrepiece of a larger area that was richly decorated with birds small animals and garlands of flowers on a patterned background Over two hundred pieces of the Don Quixote series were woven between 1714 and 1794 10 He received a commission to design a series of theatrical scenes for tapestries for the queen of Poland in 1747 8 Coypel also wrote prose several comedies two tragedies and some poetry 8 Alongside his painting career Coypel wrote some forty plays between 1717 and 1747 Only Les Folies de Cardenio 1720 was published It was staged at the Tuileries Palace in 1721 In La Poesie et la Peinture Allegory of Painting allegorical comedy in three acts the artist compared the qualities of both arts The painter also realized works on the theme of the theater including portraits of the Comedie Francaise players Charlotte Desmares and Adrienne Lecouvreur Selected works editJason and Medea 1715 Coypel s reception piece for the Academie Royale now at Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin Painting Ejecting Thalia 1732 Norfolk Chrysler Museum of Art Self Portrait 1734 J Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles Fury of Achilles 1737 Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg Self Portrait 1739 Musee des Beaux Arts d Orleans Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife 1742 Exhibited at the Salon of 1742 now at the Art Institute of Chicago 11 Gallery editWorks by Charles Antoine Coypel nbsp Fury of Achilles 1737 nbsp Self portrait 1739 nbsp Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife 1742 References edit Craske Matthew 1997 Art in Europe 1700 1830 A History of the Visual Arts in an Era of Unprecedented Urban Economic Growth Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 284206 4 p 145 Klingsohr Leroy Cathrin 2003 Coypel Noel Grove Art Online Oxford University Press Retrieved 28 July 2023 Garnier Nicole 2003 Coypel Antoine Grove Art Online Oxford University Press Retrieved 28 July 2023 Philippe Coypel 1703 1777 valet de chambre du roi frere de l artiste collections louvre fr in French Retrieved 28 July 2023 Bell Esther Fall 2016 A Curator at the Louvre Charles Coypel and the Royal Collections Journal18 Louvre Local 2 doi 10 30610 2 2016 6 Coypel Charles Antoine Benezit Dictionary of Artists Oxford University Press 2011 doi 10 1093 benz 9780199773787 article B00043957 ISBN 978 0 19 977378 7 Retrieved 28 July 2023 Stein Perrin April 2001 A Newly Discovered Pastel by Charles Coypel The Burlington Magazine 143 1177 220 223 via JSTOR a b c d Charles Antoine Coypel Archived 2007 03 14 at the Wayback Machine The Getty Museum Paulson Ronald 1998 Don Quixote in England The Aesthetics of Laughter Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 0 8018 5695 7 p 45 Jenkins D T 2003 The Cambridge History of Western Textiles Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 34107 8 p 612 Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife artic edu Retrieved 28 July 2023 Further reading editGeneral studies edit Adapted from a following source Freitag Wolfgang M 1997 1985 Art Books A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists 2nd ed New York London Garland p 79 entries nos 2340 2343 ISBN 0 8240 3326 4 Ingersoll Smouse Florence 1920 Charles Antoine Coypel La Revue de l art ancien et moderne in French 37 143 154 285 292 via Gallica Jamieson Irene 1930 Charles Antoine Coypel premier peintre de Louis XV et auteur dramatique 1694 1752 in French Paris Hachette OCLC 490338910 Lefrancois Thierry 1994 Charles Coypel Peintre du Roi 1694 1752 in French Preface by Pierre Rosenberg Paris Arthena ISBN 2 903239 18 5 OCLC 231852472 Reference works edit Barker Emma 1996 Charles Antoine Coypel In Turner Jane ed The Dictionary of Art Vol 8 New York Grove s Dictionaries pp 92 93 ISBN 1 884446 00 0 OCLC 1033653438 via the Internet Archive Blumer Marie Louise 1961 Coypel Charles Antoine In Roman d Amat Jean Charles et al eds Dictionnaire de biographie francaise in French Vol 9 Paris Letouzey et Ane cols 1146 1147 Cornu Paul in French 1913 Coypel Charles Antoine In Thieme Ulrich ed Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler Vol 8 Leipzig E A Seemann pp 26 28 OCLC 1039527588 via the Internet Archive Gallenkamp George V 1969 Coypel Charles Antoine In Myers Bernard S ed McGraw Hill Dictionary of Art Vol 2 New York McGraw Hill p 166 OCLC 1231684719 via the Internet Archive Lefrancois Thierry 1999 Coypel Charles In Kasten Eberhard et al eds Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon in German Vol 22 Munchen Leipzig Saur pp 99 101 ISBN 3 598 22762 0 Vignon Charlotte 2015 Coypel s Don Quixote Tapestries Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France New York The Frick Collection ISBN 9780912114620 OCLC 890792980 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charles Antoine Coypel Retrieved from 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