Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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l school to that of Jean-Louis Lemoyne—which displays a marked tendency towards picturesque motive—we must take into account la florissante ecole of GuillaumeCoustou le jeune, of which the principal representatives wereEdme Bouchardon and Coustous own son, Guillaume Coustou lefils,5 whilst a third group, descended also from the great school ofVersailles, is formed by the brothers Slodtz, the pupils of Girardonhimself. We cannot, however, draw a line between the influenceof Girardon and that of Coyzevox, for many men, as for example 1 Salon, 1847, P- 3* 2 1658-1733. R., 29 August, 1693; Professor, 24 July, 1702 ; Reftor, 26 Oft.,1720; Chancelier, 10 Jan. 1733. He exhibited but once at the Salon, in 1704, Uncrucifix en bronze sur la croix. 3 1677-1746. R., 25 Oft., 1704; Professor, 28 Dec, 1715 j Reftor, 10 Jan., 1733- 4 1666-1743. R., 29 Oft., 1701 j Professor, 29 March, 1717; Reftor, 2 July,1737- 3 1716-1777. R., 28 July, 1742 ; Professor, 26 March, 1746 ; Reftor, 7 July, 1770. 48
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Nicolas Coustou. By Guillaume Coustou le jeune.(Musee du Louvre.) Rene Fremin1—who, ruined by the System, did his chiet work The at San Ildefonso for Philip V.—may be described as the pupils of School of, , r J r r Coyzevox. both these masters. The Nicolas Coustou, like his contemporaries Rigaud and Largilliere, three seems to belong really to the Grand Siecle. He was present when Colbert paid his last visit to the Royal Academy and received from his hands the gold medal for sculpture when that for painting was presented to Rigaud.2 At Versailles and elsewhere, after his young brother returned from Rome, he was in the habit of sharing with him the commissions 3 which he received from the Crown and, as a natural consequence, there is the greatest confusion as to the authorship of works by these two brothers. The Apollo, for example, which was installed at Marly in 1714,4 is claimed for Nicolas by Mariette, and claimed as a work superior even to the famous Chasseurs which he had exe

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