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Coyzevox [Coysevox], Antoine
(b Lyon, 29 Sept 1640; d Paris, 10 Oct 1720). French sculptor. He was the son of Pierre Coyzevox ( fl 1636–40), a joiner, and was one of the most accomplished sculptors of the reign of Louis XIV. He went to Paris in 1657 and entered the studio of Louis Lerambert, whose niece he married in 1666. (In 1679 he married his second wife, Claude Bourdy, the sister of a Lyon sculptor.) Also in 1666 he was accorded the title Sculpteur du Roi, and from 1667 to 1671 he worked at Saverne in the service of Cardinal François-Egon de Furstemberg, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg, on the decoration of his new palace (destr.). He returned to Paris in 1671, but in 1675–7 he was in Lyon, where he carved his first religious work, a free-standing group of the Virgin and Child (marble, 1675–6; Lyon, St Nizier); in 1677 he was appointed a professor at the Lyon Académie. He planned to settle in Lyon and to set up a school attached to the Académie, but the success of his busts of the leading figures of the court of Louis XIV, such as Charles Le Brun (terracotta, 1676; London, Wallace), Jean-Baptiste Colbert (marble, 1677; Lignières, Cher, Château) and Michel Le Tellier (marble, c. 1677; Paris, Bib. Ste Geneviève), encouraged him to pursue his career in the capital. He soon became the principal portrait sculptor at court and one of the leading sculptors in France, working both for the Bâtiments du Roi and for private patrons. He settled in Paris in 1678 and was appointed a professor at the Académie Royale; in 1684 he was living at the Gobelins manufactory, though he also had a studio at the château of Versailles, and in 1698 he was granted an apartment in the Louvre, Paris.
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