The French sculptor Antoine Coysevox was born at Lyons. In 1657 he went to Paris, where he studied under Louis Lerambert and at the Académie. In 1666 he gained the title of Sculpteur du Roi. Between 1667 and 1671 he worked at Saverne in Alsace for Cardinal Egon, Bishop of Strasbourg. After a brief return to Lyons, where he seems to have thought of establishing himself, he settled in Paris from 1667, and embarked on a busy career as a Royal Sculptor, producing works for Versailles, the Trianon, Marly, Saint-Cloud, and the Invalides. A brilliant portraitist, he made busts of most of the leading public figures of the time, and was the first French sculptor to portray fellow artists and friends, establishing a tradition that was to remain a special feature of French sculpture. Working in both bronze and marble, he produced several major sepulchral monuments, sometimes in collaboration with other Royal Sculptors.