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    Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife
    Charles-Antoine Coypel. Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife, 1742. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00005863

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    Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife

    by Charles-Antoine Coypel

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower center, in image: "C Coypel 1742"

    Provenance

    Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 18, 1898, G. Mallet sale, lot 45, for 3000 francs [annotated sale catalogue]; private collection, Paris, to 2003; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2003.

    Exhibition history

    Salon of 1742 (August 25–September 21), cat. 2.

    Publications

    Abbé Pierre-François Guyot Desfontaines, "Expositions des Tabl. De l'Acad. De P. & de S.", Observations sur les écrits modernes 29 (Paris, 1742), p. 353. Mercure de France (Sept. 1742), p. 2055 (cf. Slatkine Reprints, Geneva 1970, vol. 43, p. 152). Salon Livret 1742 (Paris, June 1869), p. 12. E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l’École française, I (Paris, 1882), p. 316. H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d’art faites en France et à l’étranger pendant les XVIIIe et les XIXe siècle, 2 (Paris, 1911), p. 306. Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart…, 8 (Leipzig 1913), p. 28. Florence Ingersolle-Smouse, "Charles-Antoine Coypel," La Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne 37 (May 1920), p. 288. Irène Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Premier Peintre de Louis XV et Auteur Dramatique (1694–1752) (Paris, 1930), pp. 20–21. Paul Ratouis de Limay, Le Pastel en France au XVIIIème Siècle (Paris, 1946), p. 27. Isabelle Compin, "Un portrait de Charles-Antoine Coypel au Musée du Louvre" La Revue du Louvre 2 (1969), p. 96. Thierry Lefrançois, Charles Coypel, Peintre du roi (1694–1752) (Paris, 1994), pp. 30 (ill.), 323, no. P.215.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Charles-Antoine Coypel / French, 1694-1752
    Date
    1742
    Medium
    Pastel on blue laid paper, pieced, laid down on canvas
    Dimensions
    90.5 × 73 cm (35 11/16 × 28 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    drawings (visual works)
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Regenstein Endowment
    Accession no.
    2003.63

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