Charles-Antoine Coypel

Charles -Antoine Coypel ( born July 11, 1694 Paris, † June 14, 1752 ) was a French history painter and playwright at the court of Louis XV.

Life

Charles -Antoine Coypel Antoine Coypel was the son and grandson of Noël Coypel, also the nephew Noël- Nicolas Coypel, although he was only four years younger than this. Art critics see him as the least talented painter, the artist Coypel family to, but he succeeded, thanks to its bustling and energetic being an impressive career within the art institutions in France.

He resigned on August 31, 1715 a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which he became director in 1747. In the same year he also became Premier Peintre du Roi (First Painter of the King) appointed and played an important role in the founding of the École des Élèves protégés de l' Académie Royale.

Already in 1722 he had become the principal painters of the Duke of Orléans, who led the regent for the underage nor king, and related facilities in the Louvre. He also worked for Madame de Pompadour and the Polish court. In addition to the actual panel works Coypel drew designs for the production of tapestries. A series of 28 scenes from the story of Don Quixote has been restored to its successful work and 1724-1794 and again.

Besides his activity as a painter Coypel joined a writer in appearance. He wrote two tragedies and some comedies to different poems.

Works (selection)

• Jason et Medea (Jason and Medea ), 1715
• Fille devant le miroir ( girl in front of the mirror ), 1730, in Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam
• La surprise ( Surprise ), 1733, in the Sanssouci Palace
• Le Sacrifice d' Abraham ( Abraham's sacrifice ), 1746
• Hermann Moritz comte de Saxe ( Hermann Moritz of Saxony), in the Sanssouci Palace