Nicolas Coustou

Plass: Lyon

Født: 1658

Død: 1733

Biografi:

Nicolas Coustou (9 January 1658 – 1 May 1733) was a French sculptor and academic. Born in Lyon, Coustou was the son of a woodcarver, who gave him his first instruction in art. When he was eighteen years old he moved to Paris, to study under C.A. Coysevox, his maternal uncle, who presided over the recently established Académie royale de peinture et ...