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Sotheby's New York. This work carried a modest estimate of between US $ 30,000 and 50,000. It was identical with a painting produced for the Régent of circa 1700-1702. This work was described in an inventory made after the death of the latter as Venus dans les eaües à la sortie de Cythère and was engraved by Louis Desplaces after 1717. A preparatory drawing by Coypel is in the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The present painting was believed to have been at one time in the collection of the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg but this seems to be a wrong assertion as the one kept there is The Birth of Venus by Noel Nicolas Coypel signed and dated 1732 while Antoine had died in 1722. The son of Noel Coypel, Antoine was the most famous of an impressive family of artists. After working in Rome between 1672 and 1681 he was admitted at the French Royal Academy at 20. Much acclaimed during his lifetime he however did not show much audacity in his works preferring to stick to his status of official painter to the French court. Coypel painted a considerable number of mythological works.
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