Noël Coypel

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Noël Coypel
Portrait of Coypel from 1677 by Academy member Florent de La Mare-Richart
Born	(1628-12-25)25 December 1628 Paris, France
Died	24 December 1707(1707-12-24) (aged 78) Paris, France
Children	Antoine Coypel Noël-Nicolas Coypel
Director of The French Academy in Rome
In office 1673–1675
Preceded by	Charles Errard
Succeeded by	Charles Errard
Director of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture
In office 1695–1699
Monarch	Louis XIV
Preceded by	Pierre Mignard
Succeeded by	Charles de La Fosse

Noël Coypel (

His father, Guyon Coypel, was an unsuccessful artist, originally from Cherbourg. He began his studies in Orléans with an artist named Pierre Poncet, who had been a student of Simon Vouet. At the age of fourteen, he went to Paris. There, he found work in the studios of Noël Quillerier.^[2] His progress was rapid. In 1646, aged only eighteen, he was employed in preparing the decorations for the opera Orfeo by Luigi Rossi.

This attracted the attention of

Upon returning to Paris, he resumed his work for the King. In 1685, three years after his wife's death, he married Anne-Françoise Perrin (1665-1728), another young art student. They had fourteen children, most of whom died in infancy. A notable exception was their son, Noël-Nicolas Coypel, who also became a well-known painter.^[4]

The

Selected paintings

• 
  The Apotheosis of Hercules (1700)
• 
  Hercules and Deianira
• 
  Juno and Hercules (1688)
• 
  Sacrifice to Jupiter
• 
  Equity (c. 1667)
• 
  Apollo Crowned by Victory (c. 1667)
• 
  Apollo and Mercury (1688)
• 
  Nero Ordering the Murder of his Mother
• 
  Christ on the Cross
• 
  Resurrection of Christ
  (c. 1700)
• 
  Solon Supporting Justice (c.1672)

References

Further reading

• Blumer, Marie-Louise (1961). "Coypel (Noël)". In Roman d'Amat, Jean-Charles; et al. (eds.). Dictionnaire de biographie française (in French). Vol. 9. Paris: Letouzey et Ané. cols. 1149–1150.
• OCLC 1039527588
  – via the Internet Archive.
• Erbslöh, Roswitha (1983). "Coypel, Noël". In Kasten, Eberhard; et al. (eds.).
  ISBN 3-598-22762-0
  .
• Klingsöhr-Le Roy, Cathrin (1996). "Noël Coypel". In Turner, Jane (ed.).
  OCLC 1033653438
  – via the Internet Archive.

External links

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• Noël Coypel in the Louvre