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| Noël Coypel Apollo crowned by Minerva 1667-68 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Noël Coypel Apollo crowned by Victory 1667-68 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Noël Coypel Apollo crowned by Victory ca. 1688 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Jupiter raised by Corybantes ca. 1701-1705 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Juno appearing to Hercules ca. 1688 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Hercules sacrificing to Jupiter ca. 1700 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Sacrifice to Jupiter ca. 1700 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Nymphs presenting a Cornucopia to Amalthea ca. 1688 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel Personification of Equity ca. 1667-68 oil on canvas Château de Fontainebleau |
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| Noël Coypel Personification of Vigilance ca. 1667-68 oil on canvas Château de Fontainebleau |
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| Noël Coypel Personification of Abundance ca. 1700 oil on canvas Château de Versailles |
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| Noël Coypel The Dew ca. 1680 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Noël Coypel Nero at a banquet, ordering the murder of his mother Agrippina ca. 1690 oil on canvas Musée de Grenoble |
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| Noël Coypel Resurrection of Christ ca. 1700 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| Noël Coypel Resurrection of Christ ca. 1700 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
"After an early apprenticeship in Paris under a "fan maker" named Richard Regnet, Noël Coypel received his real artistic training in Orléans with Pierre Poncet and, back in Paris, was noticed in 1646 by Charles Errard while working on Luigi Rossi's Orfeo, the first opera represented in France on 2 March 1647. For fifteen years, he was to become [Errard's] main collaborator, transcribing the Master's style perfectly through his brush. . . . [Noël Coypel's] reception at the Royal Academy on 31 March 1663, a first significant element of [Charles] Le Brun's patronage which would open the doors of all the great décors of the new reign, marked the break with Errard. After quickly becoming a professor (1664), [Coypel] became the Director of the Académie de France in Rome between January 1673 and March 1676 . . . taking with him his son Antoine (1661-1722) who would soon become more famous than his father."
– Moana Weil-Curiel, from a profile in La Tribune de l'Art (April 2012)