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Published by The Frick Collection, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0912114622ISBN 13: 9780912114620
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Crimson cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Pictorial bw end papers. 95 pp. with color and bw images. Catalogue published for the exhibition held February 25, 2015-May 17, 2015. Catalogue by Charlotte Vignon with a foreword by Edith Grossman. Includes an essay, The Enduring Success of Charles Coyple's Story of Don Quixote. With notes, references, and an index. The catalogue presents and pictures the 28 works. The catalogue explores "Coypel's role in illustrating Don Quixote and the circumstances of his designs becoming the most renowned pictorial interpretations of the novel. It maps the production of Coypel's tapestries, from cartoons and engravings to looms in Paris and Brussels." (from The Frick's web site). Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French painter, art commentator, and playwright. He lived in Paris. He was the son of the artist Antoine Coypel and grandson of Noël Coypel. A beautiful publication.