# TUBY, Jean-Baptiste [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1635–1700 - Profession: sculptor - School: French ## Biography French sculptor of Italian birth. He was the son of a French father and was naturalized French in 1666. He is first mentioned in connection with decorative sculpture \(destroyed 1778\) for the Porte Saint-Antoine, Paris, and in 1663 he was received \(reçu\) as a member of the Académie Royale on presentation of the model \(untraced\) for an allegorical bust of Joy \(marble version, 1680; Versailles, Château\). He worked in the Gobelins factory under the direction of Le Brun, then collaborated with Coysevox in the tomb of Mazarin \(1689-1692\). He had a successful career in the service of Louis XIV, rapidly becoming one of the most eminent sculptors in later 17th-century France. He concentrated his artistic activities to the decoration of the château of Versailles. ## Related artworks - [Apollo Fountain \(detail\)]() - [Apollo Fountain]() - [Flora or Spring Fountain]() - [Funeral Monument of Mazarin]() - [The Rhone]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()