Guillaume Coustou The Elder

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Place: Lyon

Born: 1716

Death: 1777

Biography:

Guillaume Coustou the Younger (19 March 1716 – 13 July 1777) was a French sculptor. The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736–39, as winner of the Prix de Rome (1735). He returned to Paris, where he completed the famous "Horse Tamers" (Cheva...

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