COYPEL, Noël
(b. 1628, Paris, d. 1707, Paris)

Apollo Crowned by Victory

1667-68
Oil on canvas, 214 x 115 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

In the years 1667–68 Coypel, like most of the important painters of his generation, worked on the decoration of the Tuileries palace in Paris, being entrusted with the wall and ceiling paintings in the Appartement du Roi, on the upper floor of the palace. Several of these are extant. Part of the same decorative scheme were Apollo Crowned by Victory and Apollo Crowned by Minerva (both in the Louvre). These pictures show Coypel's typical classicizing, academic treatment of the body and face.