The Painter Noel Nicolas Coypel

Artist Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger (French, 1704-1778)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1728

DimensionsH: 24 3/8 in. (61.9 cm)

MediumTerracotta.

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1964.50

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 26, Rotunda

Label TextShown in an animated pose, Noël-Nicolas Coypel (1690–1734) looks over his shoulder, his long, curly hair gathered on one side. He was a member of a family of painters to the French court, though he never achieved the level of success of his older brother, Antoine Coypel. He became friends with the young sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who was only about 24 when he sculpted this bust. The two would work together in 1732 on the décor of the Church of Saint Sauveur in Paris (now destroyed).Published ReferencesRéau, L., Les Lemoyne, Paris 1927, pp. 106-107, 112, 151, no. 125, Louvre bust repr. pl. LXI.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum News, New Series, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter 1964, repr. p. 96 (also published as handbook).

Ivory Hammer 2, The Year at Sotheby's, 1964, repr. p. 220.

Wittmann, Otto, "Treasures at Toledo, Ohio," Apollo, vol. LXXXI, no. 35, January 1965, pp. 28-35, repr. p. 30.

"New Accessions U.S.A.," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 65, no. 1153, February 1965, p. 46, repr.

"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums," Art Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3-4, 1966, p. 297, repr. (b&w), p. 302.

Watson, F. J. B., "Eighteenth Century Paintings and Decorative Arts," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 460, repr. (b&w) fig. 5, p. 455.

Keller, Harald, Die Kunst de 18, Jahrhunderts, Propylaen Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 10, Berlin, 1971, p. 282, repr. fig. 185a.

Levey, M., and W. G. Kalnein and M. Levey, Art and Architecture of the Eighteenth Century in France, Baltimore, 1972, p. 30.

Coleman, Ronald L., Sculpture: A Basic Handbook for Students, Dubuque, 1968, p. 10, repr. fig. 20.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Treasures for Toledo, 1964.