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NICOLAS See also:CousTOU (1658–1733) was the son of a See also:wood-See also:carver at See also:Lyons, where he was See also:born. At eighteen he removed to See also:Paris, to study under C. A. See also:Coysevox, his See also:mother's See also:brother, who presided over the recently-established See also:Academy of See also:Painting and See also:Sculpture; and at three-and-twenty he gained the See also:Colbert See also:prize, which entitled him to four yea's' See also:education at the See also:French Academy at See also:Rome. He afterwards became See also:rector and See also:chancellor of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. From the See also:year 1700 he was a most active collaborator with Coysevox at the palaces of Marly and See also:Versailles. He was remarkable for his facility; and though he was specially influenced by See also:Michelangelo and See also:Algardi, his numerous See also:works are among the most typical specimens of his See also:age now extant. The most famous are "La See also:Seine et la See also:Marne," "La See also:Saone," the "Berger Chasseur" in the gardens of the Tuileries, the bas-See also:relief "Le Passage du Rhin" in the Louvre, and the "Descent from the See also:Cross" placed behind the See also:choir See also:altar of Notre See also:Dame at Paris.
His younger brother, See also:GUILLAUME COUSTOU (1671-1746), was a sculptor of still greater merit. He also gained the Colbert prize; but refusing to submit to the rules of the Academy, hesoon See also:left it, and for some See also:time wandered houseless through the streets of Rome. At length he was befriended by the sculptor See also:Legros, under whom he studied for some time. Returning to Paris, he was in 1704 admitted into the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, of which he afterwards became director; and, like his brother, he was employed by See also: , His finest works are the famous See also:group of the "See also:Horse Tamers," originally at Marly, now in the Champs Elysees at Paris, the See also:colossal group "The Ocean and the Mediterranean" at Marly, the See also:bronze "See also:Rhone" which formed See also:part of the statue of Louis XIV. at Lyons, and the sculptures at the entrance of the Hotel See also:des Invalides. Of these latter, the bas-relief representing Louis XIV. -mounted and accompanied by See also:Justice and Prudence was destroyed during the Revolution, but was restored in 1815 by See also:Pierre Cartellier from Coustou's See also:model; the bronze figures of See also:Mars and See also:Minerva, on either See also:side of the See also:doorway, were not interfered with. Another GUILLAUME Couszou (1716-1777), the son of Nicolas, also studied at Rome, as winner of the Colbert prize. While to a See also:great extent a copyist of his predecessors, he was much affected by the See also:bad See also:taste of his time, and produced little or nothing of permanent value. See Louis Gougenot, Aloge de M. Coustou le jeune (1903) ; Arsene See also:Houssaye, Histoire de fart See also:francais au X VIII' siecle (186o) ; See also:Lady See also:Dilke, See also:Gazette des See also:beaux-arts, vol. See also:xxv. (1901) (2 articles). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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