Lot 207: Charles-Antoine Coypel (Paris 1694-1752) The Virgin and Child surrounded by cherubim oil on canvas 23 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (59.6 x 50.3 cm.)

Charles-Antoine Coypel (Paris 1694-1752)
The Virgin and Child surrounded by cherubim
signed 'Charles coypel.' (lower centre)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 19 ¾ in. (59.6 x 50.3 cm.)

Commissioned for the apartments of Queen Marie Leszczynska (1703-1768) at Versailles, circa 1738-9, and listed in the manuscript Memoire des Ouvrages de Peinture faits au Chateau de Versailles dans le petit appartement de la Reyne par Charles Coypel [...] pendant les Années 1738, et 1739.
(Possibly) François-Nicolas Mauperin (1766-1806), Paris; his sale, Hôtel de Buillon, Paris, 4 December 1780, lot 24, as 'Noel Coypel' (175 livres to Hamon).
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 8 July 2009, lot 37, when acquired by the present owner.