Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Charles-Antoine Coypel

Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife

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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

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400,000 - 600,000 USD

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Property from a Family Collection

Charles-Antoine Coypel

Paris 1694 - 1752

Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife


signed and dated lower left: Charles Coypel 1737.

oil on canvas

canvas: 39 ½ by 51 in.; 100.0 by 129.4 cm.

framed: 52 by 64 ¼ in.; 132.1 by 163.2 cm.

Marin Delahaye, Hôtel Lambert, Paris, by October 1753;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Marie-Edmée de Saint-Marc Delahaye;

Her posthumous sale, Paris, Hôtel Lambert, 1 December 1778, lot 29;

Madame La Comtesse de Maillé, Paris;

Her sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 28 February 1921, lot 29;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 15 December 1958, lot 35;

André Marie;

Acquired by the family of the present collector, 1999.

Mercure de France, Dédié au Roy, (September 1737), p. 2019;

E. Bellier de la Chavignerie and L. Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'école française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'a nos jours, Paris 1882, vol. I, p. 316;

U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. VIII, Leipzig 1913, p. 27;

F. Ingersoll-Smouse, "Charles-Antoine Coypel," in La revue de L'art ancien et moderne 37 (March 1920), p. 286;

I. Jamieson, Charles-Antoine Coypel, premier peintre de Louis XV et auteur dramatique (1694-1752)..., Paris 1930, p. 16;

A. Pigler, Barockthemen. Eine Auswahl von Verzeichnissen zur Ikonographie des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Berlin 1956, p. 80;

M-L. Blumer, in Dictionnaire de biographie francais, vol. IX, Paris 1961, reproduced fig. 1147;

A. Schnapper, "Musées de Lille et de Brest. A propos de deux nouvelles acquisitions: 'Le chef d'oeuvre d'un muet' ou la tentative de Charles Coypel," in Revue du Louvre 4-5 (1968), p. 259, reproduced fig. 5;

E. Zafran, "Charles Antoine Coypel's Painting Ejecting Thalia," in Apollo (April 1980), p. 287, note 25;

T. Lefrançois, "L'influence d'Antoine Watteau sur l'oeuvre de Charles Coypel," in Antoine Watteau (694-1721): le peintre, son temps et sa légende, Paris and Geneva 1987, p. 70;

E. Zafran, The Rococo Age, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta 1983, p. 38;

C. Bailey, The Loves of the Gods : Mythological Painting from Watteau to David, exhibition catalogue, New York 1992, p. 311;

T. Lefrançois, Charles Coypel, Peintre du roi (1694-1752), Paris 1994, pp. 298-299, cat. no. P182, reproduced;

R. Simon, Hogarth, France and British Art: The Rise of the Arts in 18th-century Britain, London 2007, p. 144, reproduced fig. 127;

Paris, Salon, 1737.