COYSEVOX, ANTOINE, a distinguished French sculptor, was born at Lyon in 1610: his family was originally Spanish. Ile distin guished himself at Lyon as early as hi? seventeenth year by a statue of the Virgin, and he went afterwards to Paris to perfect himself under Ldrambert. Ile was scarcely twenty-seven years of age when he was chosen by the Cardinal de Furstenberg to decorate his palace at Severna in Alsace, in which ho was occupied for four years. After the completion of these works he returned to Paris with a reputation equal to that of any of lila Parisian contemporaries, and he was elected a member of the Academy in 1676. He made two bronze statues of Louis XIV., one for the court of the Hotel de Ville, and the other, a colossal equestrian statue, for the Staten of Bretagne. Among his most celebrated works are the two winged horses, in marble, mounted by 'Fame' and 'Mercury,' placed one on each side of the entrance to the garden of the Tuileries from the Place de la Concorde; they were originally in the garden of Marly : the marble is most elaborately worked, but they show considerable manner. The horse of 'Mercury'
has a bridle, and that of 'Fame' is without one, a conceit which is raid to have much pleased Napoleon. In the garden of the Tuileries there are also a young fawn, a flute-player, and two other figures, by Coysevox. Ile made also for the garden of Marly the groups of 'Neptune' and 'Amphitrite,' for Chantilly the marble statue of the great 'ConcitS,' and many works for Versailles, including two personifi cations iu bronze of the rivers Dordogne and Garonne. Some also of the finest sepulchral monuments in Paris are by Coysevox, those of—. Cardinal Mazarin at Quatre Nations, Prince Ferdinand de Fiirsten berg at St.Germain-dea-Pres, Mansard at St. Paul ; and the most elaborate of all, that of Colbert at St. Eustache. Coyaevox was also an eminent sculptor of busts. When he died, in 1720, he was chan cellor of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. (Do Fontenni, Dictiortnaire des Artistes, (ix.; D'Argenville, Pica des fameu.s Arch/tee/es cl Sculpteurs; Galignani, history of Paris.)