biography
pronunciation:
[kwazuhvoks]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1640–1720)
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| biography:
| Sculptor, born in Lyon, SC France. He went to Paris in 1657 and was appointed court sculptor to Louis XIV) in 1666. He was responsible for much of the Baroque decoration at the Palace of Versailles, most notably the Galérie des Glaces and the Salon de la Guerre. He also produced works for the Trianon, Marly, Saint-Cloud, and the Invalides. A brilliant portraitist of artists, friends, and high society, he was received into the Académie in 1676 for his bust of Charles Lebrun (1679, Louvre). He also taught his nephews, the Coustou brothers. He sculpted a number of tombs, including that of Cardinal Mazarin (1689–93) now in the Louvre, but is best known for his statues Mercury and Fame which have stood in the Jardins des Tuileries in Paris since 1719. |
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