Related external works: Part of the same work process

Noël, Noël-Nicolas, Antoine oder Charles-Antoine Coypel (zugeschrieben): Enée descendant aux Enfers, Rötel auf Papier, 215 x 336 mm. Inv. Nr. RF 12349, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques, Cabinet des dessins, Paris

Realisation

Antoine Coypel: Descente d'Enée aux Enfers, ca. 1716-1717. Inv. Nr. 3546, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Aeneas in the underworld, ca. 1716 – 1717

Blatt: 189 x 336 mm

Inventory Number: 1088

Object Number: 1088 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Texts

About the Work

Antoine Coypel was an influential and successful painter who directed the Paris academy from 1714 to 1722. He is thought to have been one of Watteau’s promoters. This sheet, however, stands for the academic conception of drawing entirely contrary to Watteau’s: as preparation for painting in a series of individual, precisely controlled steps, from initial ideas to compositional and figural studies to a final preliminary drawing – like this one – after which the painting was executed.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Aeneas in the underworld

Draughtsman

Antoine Coypel

Period Produced

18th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

French

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet unter der Darstellung auf dem Montierungsbogen: O nate ingentum luctum ne quaere tuorum / Ostendent terris hunc tantum fata, nec ultra / Esse sinent, nimium vobis Romana propago / Visa potens, superi, propria haec si dona fuissent. / Eneidos 2.VI.[868-871]; Première pensée d' un des tableaux de la galerie du Palais Royal qui a été détruite.; in der Kartusche: Antoine Coypel; verso bezeichnet (mit Bleistift): N° 109
Verso Marke des Kunsthändlers Guillaume-Jean Constantin, Paris (Lugt 3000), bezeichnet in der Kartusche: Antoine Coipe / Collection Julienne / Destouche, Lebrun St. Maurice / et Lempereur

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