![]() ![]() Le gladiateur Borghèse, terracotta copy of an ancient marble, 1683.Le Dieu de la Santé Montrant à la France le Buste de Louis XIV, marble, 1693, 90 x 75 cm.Monument funéraire du prince François Louis de Bourbon-Conti, marble once in the church of Saint-André-des-Arts in the 6 e arrondissement.Paired with Daphné poursuivie par Apollon created by Guillaume Coustou the Elder. Apollon poursuivant Daphné, marble, from 1713–1714.Louis XV en Jupiter, statue en marbre, 1731, commissioned by the Duc d’Antin, set up with its pendant, Marie Leszczynska en Junon de Guillaume Coustou in the gardens of the Château of Versailles.Jules César, marble, in collaboration with François Girardon commissioned in 1696 as a pendant to the Annibal de Soldtz, from the Tuileries gardens.Jules César, terracotta, study for a statue in marble at the Palace of Versailles.Paris, jardin des Tuileries: La Seine et la Marne, a copy of the original in the Louvre.(The figure of Louis XIII is by Nicolas Coustou, that of Louis XIV by Coysevox) Saint Denis, marble, 1721/22. Paris, Notre-Dame cathedral: Descente de croix, marble group, also known as Le vœu de Louis XIV, 1713-1715, in the choir at Notre-Dame.Lyon, place Bellecour : Allégorie de La Saône, 1720, sharing a pedestal with the Monument à Louis XIV by François-Frédéric Lemot.Brest: Méléagre tuant un sanglier, 1706.Beauvais, cathedral: tomb of Cardinal Forbin Janson, marble, after 1715.Nicolas Coustou died in Paris in 1733 at the age of 75. His brother's son, Guillaume Coustou the Younger, also was a sculptor. ![]() Because of their collaborations, it is not always possible to ascribe a particular work to one or the other, thus one may find a single sculpture ascribed to each of them. ![]() Regularly, he worked closely with his brother, Guillaume Coustou, also a renowned sculptor and director of the academy. Both have been in the Louvre since 1940 and were restored between 20. ![]() His sculpture of Apollo pursuing Daphne is one of a pair bearing the single title that was created with his younger brother, who is ascribed as the sculptor of Daphne. Influenced by Michelangelo and Algardi, he tried to combine the best characteristics of each.Ī number of his works were destroyed during the French Revolution the most famous of those that remain are "La Seine at la Marne", the "Berger Chasseur", and "Daphne Pursued by Apollo" in the gardens of the Tuileries, the bas-relief "Le Passage du Rhin" in the Louvre, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV in the Louvre, and the "Descent from the Cross" behind the choir altar of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. La Seine at la Marne Descent from the Cross From 1700, he worked with Coysevox at the palaces of Marly and Versailles. He subsequently became rector and chancellor of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. At the age of twenty-three, Coustou won the Colbert prize (the Prix de Rome), which entitled him to four years of education at the French Academy at Rome. Antoine Coysevox, his maternal uncle, who presided over the recently established Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. When he was eighteen years old, in 1676, he moved to Paris, to study under C. Nicolas Coustou (9 January 1658 – ) was a French sculptor and academic.īorn in Lyon, Coustou was the son of a woodcarver, François Coustou, who gave him his first instruction in art, and Claudine Coysevox. La Seine at la Marne, Berger Chasseur, Descent from the Cross, Julius Caesar Coysevox, Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Académie de France à Rome ![]()
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