COYSEVOX, CHARLES-ANTOINE. — Sculptor, born in Lyons on 29 September 1640, died in Paris on 10 October 1720.
He initially followed the Berninian manner, then asserted his own personality and contributed to the formation of eighteenth-century French taste and style. Until his death, C. directed the decorative work at Versailles; but his most original production is to be sought in the busts and portraits, among which those of the Grand Condé, Louis XIV, and Maria Adelaide, Duchess of Burgundy, dressed as Diana the Huntress (1710), deserve special mention.
In the field of sacred art he left numerous funerary monuments, among which those of Colbert, Mazzarino (1692), and the painter Lebrun (1693) are particularly noteworthy.
BIBL.: H. Jouin, A. C., sa vie et ses oeuvres, Paris 1883. Vincenzo Golno