All the oil paintings of COYPEL, Antoine

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
6218		Democritus dgf	1692 Oil on canvas, 69 x 57 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris
6219		The Swooning of Esther sdf	c. 1704 Oil on canvas, 105 x 137 cm Mus??e du Louvre, Paris

COYPEL, Antoine
French Baroque Era Painter, 1661-1722 director of the French Royal Academy and principal painter of Louis XV. He illustrated many literary works, including editions of Moliere's plays, and was himself a prolific dramatist. Coypel wrote one fairy tale, Agla ou Nabotine (Agla or Little One?), published posthumously in 1779. Coypel weaves several traditional fairy tale motifs into the story of a benevolent fairy who tests the kindness and sincerity of an ugly little girl whose virtue is eventually rewarded with beauty and the love of a handsome young man.