Coypel

/ kwapɛl /

noun

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

Charles Coypel had gained fame by a set of hangings in which scenes were taken from Don Quixote.

In Coypel Chardin found a master of very different calibre—a teacher after his own heart.

He looked like one of Coypel's or Gainsborough's beautiful portraits.

Charles Coypel was but twenty when he composed the first design for this suite.

The tapestries are Gobelins, by Coypel, director of the Gobelin establishment.

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