Skip to main content
Images d’Art
Open menu
Close menu
Home
Languages
En
glish
Fr
ançais
User menu
Sign in
Sign up
Nav social
Facebook
Twitter
Keywords
Museum
Periods
Authors
Technics
Keywords
Advanced search
Antoine Coypel
(11th Apr, 1661 - 7th Jan, 1722)
Etude de Didon
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
Share:
Facebook
Twitter
Share by mail
Embed on your site
Download
Add to a selection
Add to favorites
Detail image(s)
Horizontal tabs
Explore
Keywords:
figure study
body parts study
Dido (mythology)
mise au carreau
Search by color
Color #b1916e
Color #b9a281
Color #363737
Color #e6daa6
Color #7f684e
Color #beae8a
Color #6b7c85
More info
About the artwork
Title:
Etude de Didon
Periods:
modern age
18th century
17th century
XVIIth century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
white highlights
sanguine
black chalk
grey paper
mise au carreau
mise au carreau
Dimensions:
247 x 302
Inventory number:
INV25747-recto
Detail:
Etude pour la "Mort de Didon"
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Antoine Coypel
Born:
11th Apr, 1661
Dead:
7th Jan, 1722
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Antoine Coypel
(11 April 1661 – 7 January 1722) was a history painter, the more famous son of the French painter Noël Coypel. Antoine Coypel was born in Paris. He studied under his father, with whom he spent four years at Rome. At the age of eighteen he was admitted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, of which he became professor and rector in 1707, and director in 1714. In 1716 he was appointed king's painter, and he was ennobled in the following year. His great work of decoration…
Read more...