Guillaume Coustou the Elder
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Guillaume Coustou the Elder was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpt
Guillaume Coustou the Elder by Jacques-François Delyen, in the Palace of Versailles, Salle Louis XIV
August the Strong of Saxony by Guillaume Coustou the Elder, c.1725, Museum of Old Masters, Dresden
Hercules on the pyre, (1704), Louvre
Study for one of the horses of Marly, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hyacinthe Rigaud
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Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra, known in French as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility.
Guillaume Coustou the Elder
…and rising transverse pose, as well as highly skillful carving. Following the death of directeur Louis de Boullogne on 28 November 1733, the painter Hyacinthe Rigaud proposed that the four rectors of the Académie, Coustou, Claude-Guy Hallé, Nicolas de Largillière, and himself, rotate the post. This oligarchy would…
Self-portrait, 1698
Self-portrait with a blue coat (1696)
Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1682–1712), grandson of King Louis XIV (1638–1715) and son of Louis the Grand Dauphin (1661–1711).
"Gaspard de Gueidan playing the musette" (Gaspard de Gueidan en joueur de musette, 1738), Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence.