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The Destruction of the Palace of Armida  by 
																	Charles Antoine Coypel

Charles Antoine Coypel

( French, 1694 - 1752 )

The Destruction of the Palace of Armida 

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.39 in. (128.00 cm.) (height) by 75.98 in. (193.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'CH. COYPEL. 1737' (lower right)

Literature:

J.-A. Piganiol de La Force, Extrait des différents ouvrages publiés sur la vie des peintres , Paris, 1776, II, p. 640. E. Dilke, French painters of the XVIIIth Century , London, 1899, p. 153. F. Ingersoll-Smouse, ‘Charles-Antoine Coypel’, La Revue de l’Art ancien et moderne, XXXVII, 1920, p. 286. I. Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel, premier peintre de Louis XV et auteur dramatique (1694-1752), sa vie et son oeuvre artistique et littéraire d’après des documents inédits, suivies d’une de ses comédies inédites, Paris, 1930, p. 51. A. Schnapper, ‘Musées de Lille et de Brest. A propos de deux nouvelles acquisitions. Le chefd’oeuvre d’un muet ou la tentative de Charles Coypel’, La Revue du Louvre , Paris, 1968, p. 256, nos. 4-5. Trésors des musées du nord de la France: La Peinture française aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, exhibition catalogue, Arras, 1980, p. 135. T. Lefrancois, Charles Coypel, peintre du roi (1694-1752) , Paris, 1994, pp. 186 and 302, with reference to a 1905 sale in Paris. E. Bell, Charles-Antoine Coypel: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France, unpublished doctoral dissertation, New York University, 2011, pp. 289-320. E. Bell, Charles Coypel , (forthcoming)

Provenance:

Probably) Jean-Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), the portraitist, from 1750. (Probably) Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893), philosopher, historian, and member of the Académie Française, and by descent to the present owner

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