Antoine Coysevox

Sculptor, born in Lyon, SC France. He went to Paris in 1657 and was appointed court sculptor to Louis XIV) in 1666. He was responsible for much of the Baroque decoration at the Palace of Versailles, most notably the Galérie des Glaces and the Salon de la Guerre. He also produced works for the Trianon, Marly, Saint-Cloud, and the Invalides. A brilliant portraitist of artists, friends, and high society, he was received into the Académie in 1676 for his bust of Charles Lebrun (1679, Louvre). He also taught his nephews, the Coustou brothers. He sculpted a number of tombs, including that of Cardinal Mazarin (1689–93) now in the Louvre, but is best known for his statues Mercury and Fame which have stood in the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris since 1719.

Charles Antoine Coysevox (September 29, 1640 - October 10, 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain.

He was only seventeen when he produced a statue of the Madonna of considerable merit;

In 1666 he married Marguerite Quillerier, Lerambert's niece, who died a year after the marriage.

In consequence of the influence exercised by Le Brun between the years 1677 and 1685, he was employed by Louis XIV in producing much of the decoration and a large number of statues for Versailles;

Among his works are the "Mercury and Fame", first at Many and afterwards in the gardens of the Tuileries; and statues, in which the likenesses are said to have been remarkably successful, of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV and Louis XV at Versailles, Colbert (at Saint-Eustache), Mazarin (in the church des Quatre-Nations), Condé the Great (in the Louvre), Maria Theresa of Austria, Turenne, Vauban, Cardinals de Bouillon and de Polignac, Fénelon, Racine, Bossuet (in the Louvre), the comte d'Harcourt, Cardinal Fürstenberg and Charles Le Brun (in the Louvre).

Besides the works given above he carved about a dozen memorials, including those to Colbert (at Saint-Eustache), to Cardinal Mazarin (in the Louvre), and to the painter Le Brun (in the church of Saint Nicholas-du-Chardon).

Among the pupils of Coysevox were Nicolas and Guillaume Coustou.