
Hounds with Fox
1790 · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray and brown wash, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
13.4 × 18.8 cm (5 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
Guillaume Coustou the Elder was a French sculptor of the Baroque and Louis XIV style. He was a royal sculptor for Louis XIV and Louis XV and became Director of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1735. He is best known for his monumental statues of horses made for the Château de Marly, whose replicas now stand in the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
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