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Antoine Coypel
The Baptism of Christcirca 1690

Not on view
Oil painting of a baptism scene with two adult figures at center, a descending white dove in a burst of golden light, and a ring of cherubs and an elderly figure emerging from dark clouds above

Antoine Coypel, The Baptism of Christ, circa 1690, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Antoine Coypel
France, Paris, 1661-1722
Title
The Baptism of Christ
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1690
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 53 5/8 × 38 7/16 in. (136.21 × 97.63 cm) Frame: 64 × 48 × 3 in. (162.56 × 121.92 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.90.154
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Collection of the artist, Paris, by descent to; Charles-Antoine Coypel (sale, Paris, Apr. 1753 [no date], lot 88, bought in by); M. de Saint Philippe (a.k.a. Philippe Coypel de Saint-Philippe). Collection of Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully (1725–1779) (his sale, Paris, 5 Mar. 1770, lot 64, to); Meneau, Conseiller Municipal.(1) [P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, sold 1990 to]; LACMA.

Footnote

(1) Nicole Garnier’s and Philip Conisbee’s suggestion that the painting had been bought by the painter François-Guillaume Ménageot appears unsubstantiated.

Selected Bibliography

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1991. vol. 28-29, no. 12-1 (December, 1990-January, 1992).
  • Garnier, Nicole. Antoine Coypel, 1661-1722. Paris: Arthéna, c1989.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers. Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2023.
  • Ziskin, Rochelle. Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris. Leiden: Brill, 2023.