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Antoine Coysevox was born in Lyons on September 29, 1640. He belonged to a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time.
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This is a wonderful statue of Diana the hunter with her dog. The Diana is middle aged and fancily dressed. She is wearing a long beautifully detailed dress that hangs from her shoulders and has a broach under her bosom. Around her waist her dress is gathered giving her form more curves, each crease detailed with a pattern. On her thigh is a clip that again holds up the fabric of her dress, revealing her slender leg and bare feet. Her hair is wavy and gathered in a bun that a braid hangs from to her shoulders. Her eyes are closed and she has the look of relaxation while her right hand fans her face with a feather. Staring upwards at her is a loyal creature, an Egyptian pharaoh dog, slender with pointed ears, her hand reaches near him and he leans to embrace the affection. Handmade using the "Lost Wax Method" and made of solid 100% bronze with a two tone brown patina. Signed by Artist Antoine Coysevox. Condition : This sculpture is in perfect condition. Bronze Dimensions with Marble Base:Height 14" x Width 5.5" Marble Dimensions:5.5" X 5.5" Height without base:13" Weight : 11 LBS Inventory : 93EP8658139
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Antoine Coysevox was born in Lyons on September 29, 1640. He belonged to a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time.
Antoine studied at the Royal Academy in Paris (1657-1663).
By the late 1670s he was employed at Versailles with many other sculptors engaged in the task of creating fountains and statues for the vast gardens. The artists working on this project were required to conform to the demand by the Royal Academy for a restrained, classical version of the baroque style. Although Coysevox never visited Italy, his personal taste tended to the more fluid, dramatic Italian baroque, and the garden sculpture he executed in the French classical manner is generally dull and uninspired.
During the 1680s the classicism which had dominated the Royal Academy became less constricting, and by the 1690s Louis XIV was himself inclined toward a more specifically Italian baroque style. These developments freed Coysevox's expressive talent, and he gradually began to overshadow François Girardon, his most important rival and the sculptor whose work most clearly reflected the earlier French taste for baroque classicism.
A brilliant example of Coysevox's fully developed personal style is the great stucco relief sculpture (1683-1685) of Louis XIV, which he executed for the Salon de la Guerre (Hall of War) at Versailles. In keeping with the name of this magnificently pompous reception room, Coysevox's relief presents the King on horseback as a conquering emperor riding victoriously over his fallen enemies. The bursting composition, the dramatic use of space, the boldly vigorous high relief, and the lively surface of this work are stylistic characteristics which constitute a break with French classicism.
His important tomb for Cardinal Mazarin (1689-1693; now in the Louvre, Paris) is surrounded by three richly draped bronze female figures personifying virtues and depicts Mazarin, in marble, kneeling on top of the tomb; the cardinal's gesture is lively and vibrant, and the long train of his vestment flows behind him in dramatic twists and folds and overlaps the edges of the tomb.
Coysevox's later works reveal marked tendencies toward the rococo, the light, delicate, intimate style which was to dominate the arts during the first half of the 18th century. These tendencies are especially to be seen in Coysevox's late portrait busts and in works such as the Duchesse de Bourgogne as Diana (1710) at Versailles. The duchess is shown as a lighthearted goddess of the hunt, her pose animated, her draperies gently agitated by her movement; the composition is pierced with space, and the surface presents a refined contrast of delicate textures. Coysevox died in Paris on October 10, 1720.
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In 1666 Antoine married to Marguerite Quillerier, Lerambert's niece, who died a year after the marriage.
Then he married to Claude Bourdict.