#charles antoine coypel

[illustratus]

The Fury of Achilles by Charles-Antoine Coypel

[art-portraits]

Portrait Of Francois De Jullienne Standing Beside His Wife

Artist: Charles-Antoine Coypel (French, 1694–1752)

Title: François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and Marie Elisabeth de Jullienne (Marie Elisabeth de Séré de Rieux, 1724–1795)

Date: 1743

Medium: Pastel, black chalk, watercolor, and traces of black chalk underdrawing on four joined sheets of handmade blue laid paper, mounted on canvas and adhered to a keyed stretcher

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

This double portrait is among the most technically brilliant by Coypel, who was a member of the French Royal Academy and official painter to King Louis XV. He used dazzling and unerring control of a variety of media (primarily pastel, but also chalk and watercolor) to capture the wide range of textures, including lace and velvet. The sitters are traditionally identified as Marie Elisabeth de Séré de Rieux and her husband François de Jullienne, son of a wealthy textile merchant, collector, and patron of Antoine Watteau. The direct gaze of the sitters, related to Coypel’s interest in the theater, is a conceit he used regularly.

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Portrait of Philippe Coypel and His Wife, Charles-Antoine Coypel, 1742

[lionofchaeronea]

Medea, Charles-Antoine Coypel, ca. 1715

[patrochillesvibes]

Fury of Achilles

by Charles-Antoine Copel

...and in a flash Poseidon and Athena went to him and stood beside him, assuming the forms of men. Taking his hand in their hands, they assured him with their words; and Poseidon who shakes the earth was first of them to speak: “Son of Peleus, do not shrink back, nor be alarmed; such allies are we two gods who stand by you with Zeus approving, I and Pallas Athena.​ Since you are not destined to be killed by a river, he will soon give way—you yourself will see this. But we have close advice for you, if you will heed it; do not rest your hands from war that levels all alike, until you have penned within Ilion’s famed walls the Trojan men, those who should escape you. And after you have stripped the life from Hector, return to your ships; we grant you to win glory.”

The Iliad, Book 21, Lines 284-297

Hermitage

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Fury of Achilles

Charles-Antoine Coypel 

[eccentricks]

Folly Embellishing Old Age With the Adornments of Youth, oil on canvas by Charles-Antoine Coypel, c. 1743.

[somethingwithmoles]

Charles-Antoine Coypel, Double Portrait Presumed to Represent François de Jullienne (1722–1754) and His Wife (Marie Élisabeth de Séré de Rieux, 1724–1795), 1743, pastel, black chalk, watercolor, and traces of black chalk underdrawing on four joined sheets of handmade blue laid paper, mounted on canvas and adhered to a keyed stretcher, 100 x 80 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[weary-hearted-art]

Charles-Antoine Coypel, The Fortune Teller, date unknown. Oil on canvas

[oldsardens]

Charles-Antoine Coypel - Self-Portrait

[illustratus]

Ejecting Thalia by Charles-Antoine Coypel

[redundantz]

Zelda x Classic Paintings

Frederic Leighton - The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet (1855)

Frederic William Burton - Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs (1864)

Gaetano Previati - Paolo e Francesca (1887)

Emile Levy - Le Vertige, Idylle (1867)

William Mulready - The Sonnet - (1839)

Charles-Antoine Coypel - Young Girl Holding a Mask (1745)

Lamia - JW Waterhouse (1916)

[stoicbreviary]

In place of giving an angry man arms, we should take them away.

—Publilius Syrus

IMAGE: Charles-Antoine Coypel, The Fury of Achilles (1737)

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the fighter

self-portrait as out-fighter, camille rankine 𝚫 bloodshot, julien baker 𝚫 joshua commanding the sun to stand still upon gibeon (joshua 10: 12-14), john martin 𝚫 classical subject of fighting, john hamilton mortimer 𝚫 violence upon the roads, ray smith 𝚫 samson slaying the philistine, after michelangelo (recto); figure of fury, after rosso fiorentino (verso), giovanni battista naldini 𝚫 medea, charles antoine coypel 𝚫 untitiled, jackson pollock 𝚫 relative fiction, julien baker 𝚫 the boxer, simon & garfunkel

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Music. Portrait of Madame de Maintenon with the Natural Children of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan

Artist: Antoine Coypel (French, 1661–1722)

Date: c. 1684

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

It is one of only two or three remaining paintings from a project commissioned by Charles Perrault, a great literary figure and art theorist as well as an aide to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV's chief minister. Although ostensibly an Allegory of Music, elements in the composition itself, as well as literary and external pictorial evidence, allow us to identify it as a Portrait of Mme. de Maintenon with the Natural Children of Louis XIV.

The picture was originally part of a complex ceiling design depicting the Arts and Sciences commissioned by Perrault for his house in the rue Neuve des Bon-Enfants, Paris. There were eleven separate compositions executed by some of the most popular painters in France in the 1680s, mainly pupils of Charles Le Brun, including, among others Charles de la Fosse, Jean-Baptiste Corneille, Louis de Boulogne, Claude Audran II and Antoine Coypel.