Coypel

/ kwapɛl /

noun

1. CoypelAntoine16611722MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Antoine. 1661–1722, French baroque painter, noted esp for his large biblical compositions

Example Sentences

That includes court painter Antoine Coypel’s oil “sketch” for the great gallery’s ceiling.

From Seattle Times

The exhibition, “Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France,” will include five of the original paintings they were based on; these have never been seen before in New York and are on loan from the Palais Impérial de Compiègne and the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

From New York Times

Cervantes’s comic masterpiece, “Don Quixote,” inspired many artworks, most notably tapestries by Charles Coypel, Louis XV’s artist.

From New York Times

Coypel created 28 tapestries woven at the Gobelins Manufactory in Paris.

From New York Times

The museum will also show three Gobelins tapestry panels from the J. Paul Getty Museum and two Flemish tapestries inspired by Coypel from the Frick Collection, which have not been on view in more than 10 years.

From New York Times