# Mercury

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/mercury-r1a3433431e341f>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [COYSEVOX, Antoine](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

In the late seveteenth century the promotion of the Sun King and the progress of Versailles brought about an increase in the quantity of sculpture in France, rather than any fundamental change in the Italian classical traditionwhich has persisted since Fontainebleau. The great impetus of Versailles was towards decorative, and especially garden sculpture. Only a handful of the many sculptors working at that time are well known today, among them Coysevox.

## Related artworks

- [Bust of Antoine Coypel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/bust-of-antoine-coypel-ra113e03ce18856>)
- [Bust of Louis XV as a Child of Six](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/bust-of-louis-xv-as-a-child-of-six-r693f639fefed21>)
- [Bust of Marie Serre](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/bust-of-marie-serre-r8a3af5c970cebd>)
- [Bust of the Grand Condé](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/bust-of-the-grand-cond-r7da13560b53af9>)
- [Bust of the Grand Condé](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/bust-of-the-grand-cond-r9eec12c9ee4fb7>)
- [Charles Le Brun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/charles-le-brun-r045f09ea531edd>)
- [Charles Le Brun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/charles-le-brun-rb8e51bb6127c84>)
- [Fame](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/fame-rfed58aaef1f0a1>)
- [Funeral Monument of Mazarin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/funeral-monument-of-mazarin-detail-r215e73ee79e04d>)
- [Funeral Monument of Mazarin \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/funeral-monument-of-mazarin-detail-r65bdf8cf1548f1>)
- [Funeral Monument of Mazarin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/funeral-monument-of-mazarin-rf2e47a6ad9aa58>)
- [King Louis XIV](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/coysevox-antoine-r107993fd703ed7/king-louis-xiv-r2e3f0afc7ed8b5>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)