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CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)

Lot 34
15.06.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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ID 974946
Lot 34 | CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)
Estimate value
€ 40 000 – 60 000
CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL (PARIS 1694-1752)

La diseuse de bonne aventure

porte une signature 'C. Vanloo' (en bas, vers la droite)

huile sur toile

89,4 x 73,2 cm. (35 3/16 x 28 7/8 in.)





Provenance

Collection d'Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully (1725-1779), Paris, 1764 (dans la 'Première pièce sur la Cour' (P.-J. Mariette, 1764, op. cit. infra)) ; sa vente, Paris, 2-14 mai 1770, lot 81 (comme 'Charles Coypel').

D'où acquis par 'Métra p. la Czarine' pour 160 [liv] (selon une annotation dans le Catalogue historique du cabinet de peinture et sculpture françoise, de M. de Lalive conservé dans les collections Jacques Doucet à la Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art) ou 'Hebert' (selon une annotation dans le catalogue de vente de 1770 conservé dans les collections Jacques Doucet à la Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art).

Vente anonyme, hôtel Drouot, Paris, (Me Bellier), 1er juin 1931, lot 55 (comme 'atelier de Carle Vanloo').

Collection particulière, Paris, vers 1950.

Vente anonyme, Christie's, New York, 27 janvier 2000, lot 17 (comme 'Charles Coypel').



Literature

P.-J. Mariette, Catalogue historique du cabinet de peinture et sculpture françoise, de M. de Lalive, Paris, 1764, pp. 14-15.

M. Hébert, Dictionnaire pittoresque et historique, ou Description d'Architecture, Peinture, Sculpture [...] de Paris, Versailles, Marly [...], Paris, 1766, I, p. 118.

C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles. École française, Paris, 1865, II, p. 8.

L. Courajod, Livre-journal de Lazare Duvaux, marchand-bijoutier ordinaire du roy 1748-1758, Paris, 1873, I, p. 281.

A. Siret, Dictionnaire historique et raisonné des peintres de toutes les écoles depuis l'origine de la peinture jusqu'à nos jours, Bruxelles, Paris-Leipzig-Londres, 1883 (troisième édition originale), I, p. 238.

R. James, Painters and their works: a dictionary of great artists, who are not now alive, giving their names, lives and the prices paid for their works at auction, Londres, 1896, I, p. 247.

H. Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France et à l'Étranger pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, 1902, II, p. 305.

I. Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel. Premier Peintre de Louis XV et Auteur Dramatique (1694-1752). Sa vie et son oeuvre artistique et littéraire d'après des documents inédits, suivies d'une de ses comédies inédites, Paris, 1930, pp. 1-2.

C. B. Bailey, Ange-Laurent De La Live De Jully: a Facsimile Reprint of the Catalogue Historique (1764) and the Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux (March 5, 1770), New York, 1988, pp. 14-15 (catalogue de 1764) et p. 42 (catalogue de 1770).

T. Lefrançois, Charles Coypel. Peintre du roi (1694-1752), Paris, 1994, p. 398, n°P. 377 (comme 'perdu').



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CHARLES-ANTOINE COYPEL, THE FORTUNE TELLER, BEARS A SIGNATURE, OIL ON CANVAS

A fortune teller leans over a young man's hand to read the lines on his palm, there is a mischievous glint in her eyes as she raises them to his face. The more tender expression on the young man’s face might indicate that he has come to learn the outcome of a love affair.

This playful painting by Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) was rediscovered in 2000 after it had been lost for almost two centuries. Thierry Lefrançois, author of the catalogue raisonné, confirmed the attribution to the painter at the time of its sale in New York in 2000 (see T. Lefrançois, Paris, 1994, op. cit. supra). At that time, he also identified it as likely being the painting from the Lalive de Jully collection, described in Mariette's work (P.-J. Mariette, 1764, op. cit. supra) and in the catalogue of its sale in 1770, in which it is entitled "Une Bohémienne". However, the description of the painting in the latter specifies that it shows a "black head" between the two main figures. Although we can see the sketch of this third person here, we cannot be certain that our painting is the one in Lalive de Jully's collection, as there is another version of the painting, in which this figure is more clearly defined.

The subject of the fortune teller holds a notable position in Coypel's work. At the age of twelve, in 1706, he executed his first etching, which also shows a man who wants to know his future from two gypsy women. The young pupil dedicated this etching to his uncle, Augustin Bidaud.
Artist:Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694 - 1752)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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