Noël-Nicolas Coypel
L'enlèvement d'Europe ("The Abduction of Europa"), 1726-1727.
Noël-Nicolas Coypel (17 November 1690 – 14 December 1734) was a popular French artist.
The son of Noël Coypel and half-brother to the more-famous painter Antoine Coypel, he was accredited to the Academie Royale in 1716. He was appointed a professorship in 1733, but died shortly thereafter in a domestic accident.
References
- Jérôme Delaplanche, Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690-1734), Arthena, Paris, 2004.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
See also
- A bust of Noel-Nicolas Coypel, ca. 1729, by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, February 06, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.