Charles-Antoine Coypel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Charles-Antoine Coypel

French painter, art commentator, and playwright

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1694

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 15-Jun-1752

Profession: playwright, painter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Charles-Antoine Coypel

  • Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 July 1694 – 14 June 1752) was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright.
  • He lived in Paris.
  • He was the son of the artist Antoine Coypel and grandson of NoĂ«l Coypel.
  • Charles-Antoine inherited his father’s design and painting duties as premier peintre du roi (First Painter to the King) at the French court when his father died in 1722.
  • He became premier peintre du roi and director of the AcadĂ©mie Royale in 1747.
  • He received a number of commissions for paintings for the Palais de Versailles, and worked for Madame de Pompadour, the king’s mistress.Coypel was an excellent tapestry designer.
  • He designed tapestries for the Gobelins manufactory.
  • His most successful tapestries were created from a series illustrating Don Quixote.
  • Coypel was the first to illustrate Don Quixote in a sophisticated manner.
  • These illustrations were painted as cartoons for tapestries, and were engraved and published in a deluxe folio in Paris in 1724.
  • Coypel created twenty-eight small paintings for these tapestries over a number of years.
  • Each of the paintings was used as the centrepiece of a larger area that was richly decorated with birds, small animals, and garlands of flowers on a patterned background.
  • Over two hundred pieces of the Don Quixote series were woven between 1714 and 1794.
  • He received a commission to design a series of theatrical scenes for tapestries for the queen of Poland in 1747.
  • Coypel also wrote prose, several comedies, two tragedies, and some poetry.Alongside his painting career, Coypel wrote some forty plays between 1717 and 1747.
  • Only Les Folies de Cardenio (1720) was published.
  • It was played at Palais des Tuileries in 1721.
  • In La PoĂ©sie et la Peinture, allegorical comedy in three acts, the artist compared the qualities of both arts.
  • The painter also realized works on the theme of the theater, including the portrait of Adrienne Lecouvreur in Cornelia (Paris, ComĂ©die-Française).

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