| Guillaume Coustou The Elder |
Article Index for Guillaume |
Website Links For Guillaume |
Information AboutGuillaume Coustou The Elder |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT GUILLAUME COUSTOU THE ELDER | |
| 1677 births | |
| coustou, guillaume, the elder | |
| 1746 deaths | |
| french sculptors | |
|
Guillaume Coustou the Elder ( November 29 , 1677 - February 22 , 1746 ) was a French Sculptor and academician. BIOGRAPHY Coustou was born in Lyon , the younger brother of French sculptor Nicolas Coustou . He won the Colbert prize, as had his brother, which gave him a four-year Scholarship at the French Academy In Rome ; but refusing to submit to the rules of the Academy, he soon left it, and for some time wandered homeless through the streets of Rome . Returning to Paris , he was in 1704 admitted into the Académie Royale De Peinture Et De Sculpture , of which he afterwards became director; and, like his brother, he was employed by Louis XIV . He died in Paris. WORKS His finest works are the famous group of the "Horse Tamers" ('' Chevaux De Marly ''), originally at Marly , now at the entrance to the Champs-Élysées , Paris, the colossal groups ''The Ocean'' and the ''Mediterranean'' at Marly, the bronze ''Rhone'' which formed part of the statue of Louis XIV at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hôtel Des Invalides . Of these latter, the Bas-relief representing Louis XIV mounted and accompanied by Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution , but was restored in 1815 by Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's model; the bronze figures of Mars and Minerva , on either side of the doorway, were not interfered with. REFERENCES |
|
|