Antoine Coypel
Antoine Coypel (born April 11, 1661 in Paris ; † January 7, 1722 there ) was a French court painter.
Life
Coypel was the older son of the painter Noël Coypel with the portrait painter Madeleine Hérault and the brother of the painter Noël-Nicolas Coypel . After his first artistic lessons from his father, Coypel became a student of Charles Le Brun at the "College d'Harcourt".
At the age of eleven, Coypel accompanied his father to Rome in 1672 , since he was entrusted with the management of the “Académie de France”. Coypel used his time there to study the old masters. In the papal art collections, he mainly copied works by Raphael ; the works of Annibale Carracci , Domenichino a . a. met Coypel in the Palazzi of the Farnese family .
In Rome, Coypel made the acquaintance of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Carlo Maratta . Coypel u. a. at exhibitions at the Accademia di San Luca and was honored with a prize there. According to his own statements, Coypel was also influenced by the style of Correggio (whose dome frescoes he studied in Parma ), Titians and Veronese (whose works he studied in Venice ) and the views of Roger de Piles .
After almost four years, Coypel returned to Paris in April 1676, where he became a master student at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . In November of the same year Coypel received the second prize in an exhibition in the painting class. In 1680 he received the order for the May picture of the Parisian goldsmiths' guild ( Assumption of Mary ). Coypel was later appointed as a lecturer at the academy (to which he was admitted in October 1681) and in 1714 even as its director.
For the “ Grande Mademoiselle ” he painted a pavilion in Choisy Castle . He painted on behalf of the Duke of Orleans and his son, who later became regent , and was promoted by the influential ministers Colbert and Louvois . In 1669 there was a falling out between Coypel's father and Jules Hardouin-Mansart , which also extended to Coypel. Coypel wanted to emigrate to England, but received support from the later regent (for whom he decorated the Great Gallery in the Palais Royal with scenes from the life of Aeneas in 1701) and the Dauphin . After Mansart's death in 1708, Coypel was again commissioned by the king (ceiling painting in the chapel of Versailles ). In 1710 he became director of the Royal Collection of Paintings.
As the successor to Pierre Mignard , Coypel advanced to “Premier peintre du roi” (first painter of the king) in 1716 (after the regent took over power after the death of Louis XIV in 1715). As such, he was raised to the nobility in 1717. The bust created by Antoine Coysevox came from these years .
Antoine Coypel died on January 7, 1722 in Paris at the age of 60.
In 1688 he married Marie-Jeanne Bideau, with whom he had two sons, Philippe and the later history painter Charles-Antoine Coypel . He also wrote a biography of his father.
He left a treatise on painting in verse (Sur l excellence de la peinture, published in Paris in 1883).
Works (selection)
- The expulsion of the Athalia from the temple
- Susanna accused by the old men
- Esther before Ahasver
- Rebekka and Eliezer
- Silène barbouillé de mures par Eglé around 1701, Reims, Museé des Beaux-Arts
- Democritus Louvre
swell
- Article by R. Guilly in Kindler's Malereilexikon
- Meyer's Lexicon
literature
- Dorothea Schille Antoine Coypel's art theory: an aesthetic at the transition from Grand Siècle to Dixhuitième , Europäische Hochschulschriften (dissertation Bochum 1995)
Web links
- Literature by and about Antoine Coypel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bust of Coypel
References
- ↑ The ceiling frescoes were later destroyed, but drafts have been preserved
- ^ In Vie de Premiers Peintres du Roi , Paris 1752
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coypel, Antoine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French court painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1661 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1722 |
| Place of death | Paris |