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Provenance
N. Barck (cf. L.1959)
A.W. Thibaudeau, his signature (verso)
K. Meissner
Exhibited
Bremen, Münster, Baden-Baden and Zürich, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz, 1967, no. 29, illustrated (as Noël-Nicolas Coypel)
Stanford, Detroit, New York, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Kurt Meissner, Zürich, 1969-70, no. 11, illustrated (as Noël-Nicolas Coypel)
Zürich, Galerie Meissner, Hundert Zeichnungen aus Fünf Jahrhunderten, 1984, no. 27, illustrated (as Noël-Nicolas Coypel)

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A preparatory drawing for the figure of Venus in The Apotheosis of Hercules in the Salon d'Hercule at Versailles which was completed in 1736. The ceiling was at the time the largest ceiling decoration in France and was the artist's most important commission. It won him the title of ...

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