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CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)

Lot 63
31.01.2024 10:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 63 | CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)
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$ 250 000 – 350 000
CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)

Thalia chased by Painting

signed and dated 'charles coypel 1732' (lower left)

oil on canvas

25 5⁄8 x 32 in. (65 x 81.2 cm)





Provenance

Baron Linder, possibly Constantin Carlsson Linder (1836-1908).

Comte de Canson, Paris.

Galerie Jamarin, Paris, there purchased March 1954.

Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909-1988), Virginia.

[The Estate of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.]; Sotheby's New York, 1 June 1989, lot 97, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Mercure de France, December 1733, pp. 2879-2880 (cf. Slatkine Reprints, Geneva, 1968, t. XXV, p. 372)

J.B. de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Examen Critique des différentes Ecoles et Peinture, 1768, (Minkoff reprint, Geneva 1972), pp. 244-245.

F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 'Charles-Antoine Coypel', La Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne, 1920, p. 146.

I. Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel, Premier Peintre de Louis XV et Auteur Dramatique (1694-1752), 1952, p. 83 (with reference to the engraving)

A. Schnapper, 'A propos de deux nouvelles acquisitions: 'Le chef-d'oeuvre d'un muet' ou la tentative de Charles Coypel', Revue de Louvre, 1968, no. 17, p. 254, note 3.

P. Rosenberg, Chardin: 1699-1779, Cleveland, 1979, pp. 288-289.

E. Zafran, 'Charles Antoine Coypel's Painting Ejecting Thalia', Apollo, April 1980, pp. 280-287, pl. 1.

S. Taylor, 'Engravings within Engravings: Symbolic Contrast and Extension in some 18th Century French Prints,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1985, p. 63.

C. Bailey, The first Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, New York, 1985, p. 137, no. 111a.

J. Harrison, French Paintings from the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, 1986, pp. 12-14, 101, no. 7.

T. Lefrancois, Charles Coypel, Peintre du roi (1694-1752), Paris, 1994, pp.257-260, no.140.

Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Théâtre des passions, 1697-1759, Cléopâtre, Médée, Iphigénie, 11 February-22 May 2011, n° 35, pp. 142-143, illustrated in color.

J.-C. Castelain, 'Le théâtre féconde le grand genre', L'Oeil, DCXXXIV 2011, p. 64 illustrated in color.



Exhibited

New York, Finch College, 1963, no. 13.

Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum, on loan by February 1975.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art; Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, French Paintings from The Chrysler Museum, 31 May 1986-18 January 1987, no. 7.

Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Théâtre des Passions, 11 February- 22 May 2011, cat. no. 35.
Artist:Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694 - 1752)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
Genre:Mythological painting
Place of origin:Western Europe, France
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