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Antoine Coypel

Cupid Stealing Venus's Floral Crown, 1705/1708

Not on View

Medium

orange-red, white, and black chalk, squared for transfer in black chalk, on blue laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 32.9 x 24.1 cm (12 15/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.11

Artists / Makers

Antoine Coypel (artist) French, 1661 - 1722

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: 84; by later hand on mount, center left in graphite: Coypel

Provenance

Baron Louis-Auguste de Schwiter [1805-1889] (Lugt 1768), Paris (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 20-21 April 1883, lot 26); (Strölin et Bayser, Paris); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1973: Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century, William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour, 1973-74, no. 92.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu and tour, 1983-85, no. 57.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 92.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 77.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 75.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 95.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 76 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 90-91, 279-280, 2009, no. 36 (color).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1983: Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. XLI (1983): 386-87.

1989: Garnier, Nicole. Antoine Coypel (1661-1722). Paris, 1989: no. 414.

2013: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "The Attribution of the Fauns: Restoring a Group of Trois-crayons Drawings to Louis de Boullogne the Younger." Master Drawings 51 (Winter 2013): 473, 477, fig. 4 (color).