COY S E V O X, CHARLES ANTOINE French sculptor, was born at Lyons on Sept. 29, 164o, and died at Paris on Oct. 10, 17 2o. He belonged to a family which had emigrated from Spain, and he studied under Lerambert. He was employed by Louis XIV. in producing much of the decoration and a large number of statues for the palaces at Versailles and Marty (subsequently destroyed in the Revolution), and produced statues of most of the celebrated men of his age, including Louis XIV. and Louis XV. at Versailles, Colbert (at Saint-Eustache), Mazarin (in the church des Quatre-Nations), Conde the Great (in the Louvre), Bossuet (in the Louvre) and many others. Among the pupils of Coysevox were Nicolas and Guillaume Coustou.
See Henry Jouin, A. Coysevox, sa vie, son oeuvre (1883) ; Jean du Seigneur, Revue universelle des arts, vol. i. 0855), pp. 32 et seq.