Antoine Coysevox

Place: Lyon

Born: 1640

Death: 1720

Biography:

Charles Antoine Coysevox (29 September 1640 – 10 October 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time. The name should be pronounced quazevo. Coysevox was only seventeen when he produced a statue of the Madonna of considerable merit and having studied und...