Painting the spirits of water: gods and Naiads River gods from Rubens, Poussin, Coypel and Boucher, with Naiads from Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Henrietta Rae and others.

The Dutch Golden Age: Decline and legacy After the Disaster Year of 1672, the art market collapsed. Dutch artists reverted to the more traditional, but their impact on secular themes, and genres including landscapes and still life has endured.

After Charles-Antoine #Coypel (1694–1752)
Portrait of Marie Victoire de Noailles, Countess of Toulouse (1688-1766), who was #BornOnThisDay
1700-50
#MuséeCondé
#Noailles #Bourbon

Sketch detail version of Antoine Coypel´s "Bacchus", c. 1702

Sketch version of Antoine Coypel´s "Bacchus", c. 1702

“Bacchus”
Coypel (Antoine Coypel), c. 1702
Louvre, Paris, France
8.25 x 5 in (21,5 x 12,7 cm)
Ink markers, charcoal and pastel on plain 70 G/M² sketchbook paper
03/22/25
#pandemicmasters #kuretake #coypel #museedulouvre

Charles-Antoine #Coypel (1694–1752)
Portrait of tenor Pierre Jélyotte (1713-97), who was #BornOnThisDay, in the Role of the Nymph Plataea in Jean-Philippe #Rameau's Comic Opera Platée ou Junon jalouse
ca. 1745
Musée du #Louvre

#AntoineCoypel (1661-1722), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Mohammed Reza Bey, Persian Ambassador to France
18th century
#Coypel

#AntoineCoypel (1661-1722), who was #BornOnThisDay
Self portrait
1715
Musée du #Louvre
#Coypel

Two excellent #Coysevox busts (the one on the left is a self-portrait, the right is the painter #Coypel) that caught my eye in the @MuseeLouvre.

#periwig