Antoine Coypel (Paris 1661-1722)

A draped female figure (study for L'Abondance)

Details

Antoine Coypel (Paris 1661-1722)
A draped female figure (study for L'Abondance)
black, white and red chalk on buff paper
13¾ x 9 1/8 in. (34.6 x 23 cm.)

Provenance

with Colnaghi, London, cat. 1971, no. 75.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.

Literature

N. Garnier, Antoine Coypel, Paris, 1989, no. 164, fig. 8.

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Lot Essay

A study for a lost painting by Coypel, L'Allégorie du mariage de Mgr. le Dauphin, 1680, known through an engraving by the artist published in the Mercure de France in March of the same year the painting was made (N. Garnier, op. cit., no. 3 and fig. 7).

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