Resumen de Le portrait d'Antoine Coysevox sous la plume de Fermel'huis: un sculpteur en mouvement
The portrait of Antoine Coysevox from the pen of Fermel'huis. A sculptor in motion.
The biography of Antoine Coysevox, which Jean-Baptiste Fermel'huis, established when the sculptor died in 1720, underscores the essential features of the work of this artist who was Louis XIV's principal sculptor during the second half of his reign. This portrait relates the status, the craft, and the career of Coysevox, the principle esthetics that presided over his art, the pursuance of the complex rivalry between the Ancients and the Moderns, as well as the mechanism of the artistic collaborations on the major royal building sites. Restituted through this account is the ambition, but also the normality of the career of a sculptor whose fame was rapidly tarnished by the more exceptional figures of his contemporaries, Pierre Puget and François Girardon, or his more audacious successors, such as Guillaume Coustou.
