Q93162251

Dating to 1678 and held in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, this work was painted during a period of intense activity in Noël Coypel's career: the late 1670s saw him engaged with major royal decorative commissions and rising to prominence within the Académie royale. The Karlsruhe collection, one of Germany's significant holdings of French and Dutch Baroque painting, preserves works that entered German collections through eighteenth-century princely acquisitions and later institutional transfers. Coypel's 1678 production reflects the mature consolidation of his Grand Manner style, shaped by his Roman studies and his close observation of Le Brun's decorative achievements at Versailles. Without a verified title for this Wikidata entry, the work is best understood as representative of Coypel's sustained output of mythological and religious canvases for aristocratic and institutional patrons during the height of Louis XIV's cultural programme.

The Karlsruhe canvas exemplifies Coypel's characteristic balance between firm academic draughtsmanship and the luminous colour sense he developed from Italian models. Drapery is handled with confident broad strokes, while flesh areas receive more deliberate, blended modelling in keeping with French academic norms of the 1670s.