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A native of Lyon, Coysevox moved in 1657 to Paris, where he studied with various sculptors and at the Academy.  In 1666 he was named “sculpteur du roi.” After working in Alsace from 1667 to 1671 for the Bishop of Strasbourg, he settled in Paris, spending brief intervals at Lyon.  Coysevox won many important commissions for portraits and monuments, received an apartment at the Louvre, and was employed at Versailles, Marly, and Saint-Cloud.  Louis XIV named him to a succession of posts, and he was elected Director of the Academy. Coysevox became the leading French sculptor of his time.

Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

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