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Charles-Antoine Coypel - Trissotin Reading to Philaminte, Bélise, and Armande (from act 3, scene 2 of Molière’s “Les Femmes Savantes”

Trissotin Reading to Philaminte, Bélise, and Armande (from act 3, scene 2 of Molière’s “Les Femmes Savantes” (probably c. 1725-1726)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
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Charles-Antoine Coypel

Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French painter, art commentator, 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.

He was born in an artistic family as the son of the painter Antoine Coypel and grandson of the painter Noël Coypel. He lived almost his whole life at the Louvre, from the age of three when his father was granted a brevêt de logement (residence permit) in 1697. He was a pupil of his father and was simultaneously agréé and reçu (which meant he became a full member) at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on 31 August 1715.

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 Madame de Pompadour, the king’s mistress.

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. 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. 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. He received a commission to design a series of theatrical scenes for tapestries for the queen of Poland in 1747. Coypel also wrote prose, several comedies, two tragedies, and some poetry.

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 the portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur in Cornelia (Paris, Comédie-Française).

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The Destruction Of The Palace Of Armida

The Destruction Of The Palace Of Armida

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The Blacksmith Cupids

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River God and Another Male Figure

River God and Another Male Figure (18th century)

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Joseph Recognized by his Brothers

Joseph Recognized by his Brothers (18th century)

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The Daughter of Jephthah

The Daughter of Jephthah (1710–50)

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Allegorical Figure of Painting

Allegorical Figure of Painting (early 18th century)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
Portrait of a woman sewing

Portrait of a woman sewing (1746)

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La Malice

La Malice

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Study of a Reclining Female Nude

Study of a Reclining Female Nude (1710–50)

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François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and Marie Élisabeth de Jullienne (1724–1795)

François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and Marie Élisabeth de Jullienne (1724–1795) (1743)

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Self-Portrait

Self-Portrait (1734)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
Sorrowful Democritus

Sorrowful Democritus (1746)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
Roland And The Marriage Of Angelique

Roland And The Marriage Of Angelique

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The fortune teller

The fortune teller

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife

Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife (1742)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694 - 1752)
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