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COYPEL Charles-Antoine (1694 - 1752)
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COYPEL Charles-Antoine (1694 - 1752)
2 Manuscripts
Les Désordres du jeu, Comédie en trois actes| 44 small leaves in-4 (plus qqs ff. blancs) in 7 quires sewn with a blue ribbon, gilt edges (wetnesses), and 83 leaves in-8 in 7 quires sewn with blue thread, gilt edges.
Two complete manuscripts of this unpublished piece.
The painter and engraver Charles-Antoine Coypel was also a playwright, and was director of the Royal Academy of Music| only one of his forty or so plays was published, Les Folies de Cardenio.
The duke of La Vallière had a manuscript of Charles Coypel's Théâtre
Coypel, in 6 volumes in-4, gathering 21 plays (n° 3463), of which (6)
Les Désordres du jeu : "All these plays of Charles Coypel, of a family fertile in Painters, died in 1752, were not printed. He was very jealous not to make them public, &| it is by a proof of the greatest confidence that M. le Duc de la Vallière had a copy of all those he admitted."
Beautiful neat copies, of this comedy in 3 acts, in prose, remained unpublished. It features Géronte, his two sons Valère and Éraste| the other roles are : Chrisante, father-in-law of Valère, Argante, former friend of Géronte, the Knight, friend of Valère, a young child, son of Valère| and three valets or lackeys.
2 Manuscripts
Les Désordres du jeu, Comédie en trois actes| 44 small leaves in-4 (plus qqs ff. blancs) in 7 quires sewn with a blue ribbon, gilt edges (wetnesses), and 83 leaves in-8 in 7 quires sewn with blue thread, gilt edges.
Two complete manuscripts of this unpublished piece.
The painter and engraver Charles-Antoine Coypel was also a playwright, and was director of the Royal Academy of Music| only one of his forty or so plays was published, Les Folies de Cardenio.
The duke of La Vallière had a manuscript of Charles Coypel's Théâtre
Coypel, in 6 volumes in-4, gathering 21 plays (n° 3463), of which (6)
Les Désordres du jeu : "All these plays of Charles Coypel, of a family fertile in Painters, died in 1752, were not printed. He was very jealous not to make them public, &| it is by a proof of the greatest confidence that M. le Duc de la Vallière had a copy of all those he admitted."
Beautiful neat copies, of this comedy in 3 acts, in prose, remained unpublished. It features Géronte, his two sons Valère and Éraste| the other roles are : Chrisante, father-in-law of Valère, Argante, former friend of Géronte, the Knight, friend of Valère, a young child, son of Valère| and three valets or lackeys.