Guillaume Coustou the Younger, was a French sculptor. The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736-39, as winner of the Prix de Rome (1735). He returned to Paris, where he completed the famous "Horse Tamers" (Chevaux de Marly) commissioned from his father in 1739 for Marly, when the elder Coustou was too infirm to actively carry out the commissions.

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  • Guillaume Coustou the Younger, was a French sculptor. The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736-39, as winner of the Prix de Rome (1735). He returned to Paris, where he completed the famous "Horse Tamers" (Chevaux de Marly) commissioned from his father in 1739 for Marly, when the elder Coustou was too infirm to actively carry out the commissions. They were completed and installed in 1745. He was accepted at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (1742) and pursued a successful official career, working fluently in styles that ranged from the Late Baroque of his morceau de réception, a Seated Vulcan (illustrated) to the sentimental early neoclassicism of the Ganymede, whose affinities with Roman sculptures of Antinous have been suggested by Michael Worley.. He produced portrait busts as well as his religious and mythological subjects. His most prominent and ambitious official commission was the Monument to the Dauphin for the cathedral of Sens. The elaborate iconography of its somewhat overcharged design was worked up by the artist and connoisseur Charles-Nicolas Cochin. His pupils included two minor neoclassical sculptors, Claude Dejoux and Pierre Julien (1731-1804), who were fellow pupils in the 1760s and went on to collaborate on sculptural projects and the young Danish sculptor Johannes Widewelt, who was placed in his workshop through the offices of the secretary of the Danish legation, and picked up some of Coustou's clarity and his language of rhetorical gesture.
  • Guillaume Coustou war ein französischer Bildhauer. Anlässlich der grossen Ausstellung der Académie des Beaux-Arts 1735 wurde Coustous Werk mit dem Prix de Rome ausgezeichnet. Mit diesem Preis verbunden war ein grosszügiges Stipendium, das Coustou einen Studienaufenthalt in Rom in der Villa Medici erlaubte. Nach fünf Jahren kehrte Coustou 1740 wieder nach Frankreich zurück und arbeitete ab dieser Zeit im Atelier seines Vaters, Guillaume. Er starb im Alter von 61 Jahren am 13. Juli 1777 in Paris.
  • Guillaume Coustou el joven, fue un escultor francés.
  • Guillaume Coustou (fils),, est un sculpteur français. C'est le fils de Guillaume Coustou et le neveu de Nicolas Coustou, tous deux également sculpteurs de renom. Perpétuant la tradition familiale, il réussit lui aussi à obtenir le prix Colbert qui lui permit d'être pensionnaire de l'Académie de France à Rome de 1734 à 1740. Cependant il aura une carrière un peu moins brillante que ses ainés. Il réalisera le mausolée du Dauphin Louis de France, fils de Louis XV, dans la cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens.
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  • Guillaume Coustou the Younger, was a French sculptor. The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736-39, as winner of the Prix de Rome (1735). He returned to Paris, where he completed the famous "Horse Tamers" (Chevaux de Marly) commissioned from his father in 1739 for Marly, when the elder Coustou was too infirm to actively carry out the commissions.
  • Guillaume Coustou war ein französischer Bildhauer. Anlässlich der grossen Ausstellung der Académie des Beaux-Arts 1735 wurde Coustous Werk mit dem Prix de Rome ausgezeichnet. Mit diesem Preis verbunden war ein grosszügiges Stipendium, das Coustou einen Studienaufenthalt in Rom in der Villa Medici erlaubte. Nach fünf Jahren kehrte Coustou 1740 wieder nach Frankreich zurück und arbeitete ab dieser Zeit im Atelier seines Vaters, Guillaume. Er starb im Alter von 61 Jahren am 13.
  • Guillaume Coustou el joven, fue un escultor francés.
  • Guillaume Coustou (fils),, est un sculpteur français. C'est le fils de Guillaume Coustou et le neveu de Nicolas Coustou, tous deux également sculpteurs de renom. Perpétuant la tradition familiale, il réussit lui aussi à obtenir le prix Colbert qui lui permit d'être pensionnaire de l'Académie de France à Rome de 1734 à 1740. Cependant il aura une carrière un peu moins brillante que ses ainés.
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  • Guillaume Coustou the Younger
  • Guillaume Coustou der Jüngere
  • Guillaume Coustou (hijo)
  • Guillaume Coustou (fils)
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