Charles Antoine Coysevox, was a French sculptor in the Baroque and Louis XIV style, best known for his sculpture decorating the gardens and Palace of Versailles and his portrait busts.
10 Facts About Antoine Coysevox
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Antoine Coysevox was the son of a sculptor, from a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comte, a Spanish possession at the time.
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Antoine Coysevox made his first work of sculpture of the Madonna when he was only seventeen,.
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Antoine Coysevox trained himself further by making copies in marble of Roman sculptures, including a Venus de Medici and the Castor and Pollux.
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Antoine Coysevox became part of the extraordinary team of sculptors, painters, and decorators, under the control of Le Brun, who between 1677 and 1685 produced the decoration of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles.
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Later, between 1701 and 1709, when Louis XIV built a new Chateau de Marly, where he could escape from the crowds and ceremony at Versailles, with Antoine Coysevox providing several works for that site.
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Antoine Coysevox became a professor at the Royal Academy in 1678, and then its director in 1702, with an annual pension of four thousand livres.
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Antoine Coysevox executed Justice and Force and the River Garonne at Versailles.
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Between 1708 and 1710 Antoine Coysevox produced three further sculptures for Marly, a Pan, flanked by a Flora and a Dryad.
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Antoine Coysevox sculpted portrait busts of many of the celebrated men and women of his age.