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Coypel
/ 办飞补辫蓻濒 /
noun
- CoypelAntoine16611722MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Antoine. 1661鈥1722, French baroque painter, noted esp for his large biblical compositions
Example Sentences
That includes court painter Antoine Coypel鈥檚 oil 鈥渟ketch鈥 for the great gallery鈥檚 ceiling.
The exhibition, 鈥淐oypel鈥檚 Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France,鈥 will include five of the original paintings they were based on; these have never been seen before in New York and are on loan from the Palais Imp茅rial de Compi猫gne and the Mus茅e Jacquemart-Andr茅, Paris.
Cervantes鈥檚 comic masterpiece, 鈥淒on Quixote,鈥 inspired many artworks, most notably tapestries by Charles Coypel, Louis XV鈥檚 artist.
Coypel created 28 tapestries woven at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris.
The museum will also show three Gobelins tapestry panels from the聽J. Paul Getty Museum and two Flemish tapestries inspired by Coypel from the Frick Collection, which have not been on view in more than 10 years.
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