Master Paintings Part I

Master Paintings Part I

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Charles-Antoine Coypel

The Destruction of the Palace of Armide

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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Charles-Antoine Coypel

Paris 1694 - 1752

The Destruction of the Palace of Armide


signed and dated lower right: CH. COYPEL. 1737

oil on canvas

canvas: 51⅛ by 77⅜ in.; 130 by 196.5 cm.

framed: 60⅞ by 87¼ in.; 154.5 by 221.7 cm.

Jean-Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), to whom given by the Académie in 1760 (according to Papillon de La Ferté, 1776);
With M. Samson, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Chariot and Henri at Hôtel de Bullion, 27 October 1812, lot 35;
Anonymous sale, Paris, Chariot and Henri at Hôtel de Bullion, 28 October 1812, lot 14;
Possibly Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893);
Martine-Marie-Pol de Béhague, Comtesse de Bearn (1870-1939), Paris;
Her sale, Paris, Drouot, 16 December 1905, lot 4;
Anonymous sale ("Property of the Descendants of Hippolyte Taine"), London, Christie's, 8 December 2015, lot 36;
Where acquired by present owner.
D.P.J. Papillon de La Ferté, Extrait des différents ouvrages publiés sur la vie des peintres, Paris 1776, vol. II, pp. 640, 645;
E. Dilke, French Painters of the XVIIIth Century, London 1899, p. 153;
F. Ingersoll-Smouse, "Charles-Antoine Coypel," in La Revue de l’Art ancien et moderne 37 (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..., Paris 1930, p. 51;
A. Schnapper, "Musées de Lille et de Brest a propos de deux nouvelles acquisitions..." in La Revue du Louvre 4-5 (1968), p. 256, cat. 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, p. 302, cat. no. P186;
E. Bell, "Charles-Antoine Coypel: Painting and Performance in Eighteenth-Century France," Ph.D. dissertation, New York University 2011, pp. 289-320.