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Charles-Antoine Coypel (11 iulie 1694 – 15 iunie 1752) a fost un pictor francez, comentator de arta si dramaturg care a trait in Paris. A fost fiul artistului Antoine Coypel si nepotul lui Noël Coy…
Nicolas & Guillaume Coustou. Continuing the theme of engraved and painted images of Sculpture. Poss. Nicolas Coustou but perhaps the sculptor Rene Fremin c.1713 Nicolas de Largilliere (1656 - 1746) Gemalde Galerie, Berlin _____________________________ Nicolas Coustou after Jean le Gros. 1730. engraving 398 x 282 mm Charles Dupuis. British Museum ______________________________ Bust of Nicolas Coustou by Guillaume Coustou. __________________________________ Guillaume Coustou after Jaques Francois Delyen Nicolas de Larmessin III Engraving 357 x 244 mm British Museum __________________________________________________ Self Portrait Largilliere in his Studio
Louis XV (1710–1774) at the Age of Five in the Costume of the Sacre Hyacinthe Rigaud and Workshop (French, Perpignan 1659–1743 Paris) Date: ca. 1716–24 Louis XV succeeded to the throne of France in 1715 upon the death of his great-grandfather, Louis XIV, who had reigned for more than seventy years. The five-year-old boy was the only surviving son of Louis, duc de Bourgogne, and Marie Adélaïde de Savoie, both of whom had died of smallpox in 1712. The canvas is one of many versions of Rigaud’s first official portrait of Louis XV, which was commissioned by the regent, the duc d’Orléans, for the palace of Versailles.
La déroute de Moy fait partie de l'histoire des révoltes jacobites. Une poignée de jacobites ont mis en déroute une armée de 1500 hommes le 17 février 1746.