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Antoine Coypel
(11th Apr, 1661 - 7th Jan, 1722)
Un ange volant portant à deux mains l'extrémité de la Croix
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Martine Beck-Coppola
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
angel
cross
from behind
figure study
flying
mise au carreau
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About the artwork
Title:
Un ange volant portant à deux mains l'extrémité de la Croix
Periods:
modern age
18th century
17th century
XVIIth century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
sanguine
mise au carreau
black chalk
white highlights
blue paper
mise au carreau
Dimensions:
290 x 263
Inventory number:
INV25793-recto
Detail:
Etude pour les "Anges portant les Instruments de la Passion", décoration du plafond de la chapelle du château de Versailles
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…
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