Charles-Antoine COYPEL (Paris, 1694 - Paris, 1752)
Portrait of a Young Girl with a Doll
Canvas
51.8 x 41.6 cm [CR}On the back, an old sales label "Schall/Jeune fille à la ? (sans date de vente)".
Provenance:
- Château de Beychevelle (Gironde).
- Sale Me Thierry de Maigret, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 2 December 2015, n° 51.We can relate our painting to another portrait by Charles-Antoine Coypel, Portrait de femme, dit la Manzanelli donated by Marc Fumaroli to the Louvre Museum (inv. RF 20146). The inventory of June 27, 1764 of the collection of the Marquise de Pompadour in her hotel on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré mentions in the vestibule on the first floor a drawing on glass representing A young girl playing with a doll. The catalog of the sale of March 18, 1782 of part of the property of the Marquis de Marigny mentions "two oval-shaped mirrors, on which are painted busts of a young girl and a young boy".
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