CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752) - photo 1
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CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)

Lot 31
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Lot 31 | CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)
The Destruction of the Palace of Armida
signed and dated 'CH. COYPEL. 1737' (lower right, on the base of the broken column)
oil on canvas
51 1/8 x 77 ¼ in. (130 x 196.2 cm.)




Provenance

Given to Jean-Louis Tocqué (1696-1772) by the Académie in 1760 (according to Papillon de la Ferté, op. cit., p. 645).
with M. Samson, Paris; his sale, Chariot and Henri, Hôtel de Bullion, Paris, 27 October 1812 (=1st day), lot 35 (26 FF to Constantin).
(Probably) Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Béarn (1870-1939), Paris; [Provenant de la Collection d'un Amateur], Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 December 1905, lot 4.
The Descendants of Hippolyte Taine; Christie's, London, 8 December 2015, lot 36, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

D.-P-.J. Papillon de la Ferté, Extrait des différents ouvrages publiés sur la vie des peintres, Paris, 1776, II, pp. 640 and 645.
E. Dilke, French painters of the XVIIIth Century, London, 1899, p. 153, note 2.
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, 'Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752)', La Revue de l’Art Ancien et Moderne, XXXVII, 1920, p. 286.
I. Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel: Premier Peintre de Louis XV et Auteur Dramatique (1694-1752), Sa vie et son œuvre artistique et littéraire d’après des documents inédits, suivies d’une de ses comédies inédites, Paris, 1930, p. 51, note 1.
A. Schnapper, ‘Musées de Lille et de Brest. À propos de deux nouvelles acquisitions. Le chef d’oeuvre d’un muet ou la tentative de Charles Coypel’, La Revue du Louvre, Paris, 1968, p. 256, note 30.
H. Oursel, in Trésors des musées du Nord de la France: La Peinture Française aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, exhibition catalogue, Arras, 1980, p. 135, under no. 71.
T. Lefrançois, Charles Coypel: Peintre du roi (1694-1752), Paris, 1994, pp. 302 and 303, no. P.186.
E. Bell, Charles-Antoine Coypel: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France, unpublished doctoral dissertation, New York University, 2011, p. 321, note 82.
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