Nicolas Coustou
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Nicolas Coustou was a French sculptor and academic.
Portrait of Nicolas Coustou at work, by Jean Le Gros (1710)
La Seine at la Marne
Descent from the Cross
Charles Dupuis, Nicolas Coustou, 1730. Engraving. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1979.25.2
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
Nicolas Coustou
…the sculptor of Daphne. Both have been in the Louvre since 1940 and were restored between 2004 and 2006. Regularly, he worked closely with his brother, Guillaume Coustou, also a renowned sculptor and director of the academy. Because of their collaborations, it is not always possible to ascribe a particular work to one…
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