Antoine Coypel

1661–1722 · Baroque

Antoine Coypel was a French painter, pastellist, engraver, decorative designer and draughtsman. He became court painter first to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and later to King Louis XV. He became director of the Académie Royale. He was given the title of Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi, a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. He was raised to the nobility by the French king. He is known for his history paintings, biblical, mythological and allegorical works, portraits and genre scenes.

30 paintings

• Jacob and Rachel
• Esther and Ahasuerus
• Louis XIV se repose dans le sein de la gloire après la paix de Nimègue. (1681)
• Louis XIV reçoit les envoyés de la Perse
• The sacrifice of Jephtah's daughter (1696)
• Aeneas Carrying his Father Anchises (1716)
• Pastoral scene with a woman beating a tambourine
• Pastoral with two woman holding flowers
• Europa
• Shepherdess
• Shepherd
• Leda and the Swan (1750)
• The Moroccan ambassador and his retinue at the Comédie italienne in Paris, February 1682 (1682)
• Flora and Zephyr (1684)
• Self-Portrait with His Son (1698)
• Assembly of Gods (1703)
• Woman in a garland of flowers forming a medallion (1686)
• Allegory of Music (Portrait of Mme. de Maintenon with the natural children of Louis XIV) (1684)
• Venus Bringing Weapons to Aeneas (1699)
• The Baptism of Christ (1690)
• The Alliance of Bacchus and Cupid (1702)
• Self portrait of Antoine Coypel, Ecuyer Premier Peintre du Roy (1661-1722) (1715)
• Enée et Achate apparaissant à Didon (1616)
• Angola, trumpeter of Louis XIV, holding a fruit basket (1682)
• Athaliah Expelled from the Temple (1696)
• Eliezer and Rebecca (1701)
• Zephyr and Flora. Allegory of spring (1699)
• The Swooning of Esther (1697)
• Portrait of Democritus (1692)
• Susannah accused of adultery (1695)