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Charles Antoine Coysevox (29 September 1640 – 10 October 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time. The name should be pronounced ''quazevo''. == Biography == Coysevox was only seventeen when he produced a statue of the Madonna of considerable merit; and having studied under Louis Lerambert and having further trained himself by taking copies in marble from Roman sculptures (among others from the ''Venus de Medici'' and the ''Castor and Pollux''), he was engaged by the bishop of Strasbourg, Cardinal Fürstenberg, to adorn with statuary his château at Saverne (Zabern). In 1666, he married Marguerite Quillerier, Lerambert's niece, who died a year after the marriage. In 1671, after four years spent working at Saverne, which was subsequently destroyed by fire in 1780, he returned to Paris. In 1676, his bust of the king's painter Charles Le Brun〔The terracotta is at the Wallace Collection, London (S60); the marble (1678) is at the Louvre Museum.〕 obtained admission for him to the ''Académie Royale''. A year later he married Claude Bourdict. For niches on the façade of Jules Hardouin-Mansart's royal chapel at ''Les Invalides'', he was commissioned to produced a ''Charlemagne'' (') as a pendant to Nicolas Coustou's ''Louis XI''. On the upper storey stand his ''Cardinal Virtues''. In consequence of the coordination of official arts that was exercised by Charles Le Brun between the years 1677 and 1685,〔Le Brun's design control over the sculptors carrying out assignments, even apart from the special case of Versailles was analysed in detail in Jennifer Montagu, "Charles Le Brun and His Sculptors: A Reconsideration in the Light of Some Newly Identified Drawings" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 118No. 875 (February 1976), pp. 88-95.〕 he was employed on behalf of Louis XIV in producing much of the decoration〔The "War" Vase of 1684, an improvisation upon the Medici Vase was delivered by Coysevox; its companion, the "Peace" Vase was carved by Jean-Baptiste Tuby.〕 and a large number of statues for Versailles; and he afterwards worked, between 1701 and 1709, with no less facility and success, for the Château de Marly, subsequently largely abandoned, then destroyed in the Revolution. He executed ''Justice'' and ''Force'' and the ''River Garonne'' at Versailles. Among his works from Marly are the ''Mercury'' and the equestrian ''Fame'' (1702) and four groups commissioned for the "river" in the château's park; ''La Seine'' and its pendant at the head of the cascade, ''La Marne'', ''Neptune'' and ''Amphitrite''. Models in weather-resistant stucco were set up in 1699, replaced by marbles when they were finished in 1705. The groups were seized as ''biens nationaux'' in 1796 and dispersed: the ''Seine'' and ''Marne'' went to Saint-Cloud, and the ''Neptune'' and ' went to Brest in 1801. In his portrait sculptures, the likenesses were said to have been remarkably successful; he produced portrait busts of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV and Louis XV at Versailles, Colbert (the kneeling figure of his tomb at Saint-Eustache), Cardinal Mazarin (in the church of the Collège des Quatre-Nations), the Grand Condé (in the Louvre), Maria Theresa of Austria, Turenne, Vauban, Cardinal de Bouillon and de Polignac, the duc de Chaulnes (National Gallery of Art, Washington); Fénelon, Racine, André Le Nôtre (church of St-Roch); Bossuet (in the Louvre), the comte d'Harcourt, William Egon Cardinal Fürstenberg as well as Charles Le Brun (in the Louvre). Coysevox died in Paris, 10 October 1720. Besides the works given above, he carved about a dozen funeral monuments, including those to Colbert (at Saint-Eustache), to Cardinal Mazarin (in the Louvre), and to the painter Le Brun (in the church of Saint Nicolas-du-Chardonnet). Between 1708 and 1710 Coysevox produced three further sculptures for Marly, a ''Pan'' (now in the Louvre), flanked by a ''Flora'' and a ''Dryad'' (in the Tuileries Gardens). A highly finished terracotta bozzetto or reduction of the ''Dryad'', signed and dated 1709, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.〔J. Byam Shaw and Ian Robertson, "Sir Karl Parker and the Ashmolean" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 104 No. 715 (October 1962), p 429 (illus.), 432.〕 Among the pupils of Coysevox were Nicolas and Guillaume Coustou and René Frémin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antoine Coysevox」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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