Venus and her companions (style Lowpoly) inspiration from a painting by Noel Nicolas Coypel (c. 1726)
A three-chalk drawing for the figure of Venus is in the collection of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (fig. 1). It is clearly a study from life and drawn quickly, but all the essential features are already there. Coypel was obviously very pleased with this figure because he used it again in The Alliance of Bacchus and Venus, in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva (fig. 2), dated 1726. She appears in the background as one of the three Graces, this time reaching for an apple.
Venus and her companions (style Lowpoly) inspiration from a painting by Noel Nicolas Coypel (c. 1726)
A three-chalk drawing for the figure of Venus is in the collection of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (fig. 1). It is clearly a study from life and drawn quickly, but all the essential features are already there. Coypel was obviously very pleased with this figure because he used it again in The Alliance of Bacchus and Venus, in the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva (fig. 2), dated 1726. She appears in the background as one of the three Graces, this time reaching for an apple.