François Coudray (born c. 1678 in Villecerf, in the Province of Champagne (now commune of

Messon Messon () is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Population See also * Communes of the Aube department The following is a list of the 431 communes of the Aube department of France France, officially the Fr ...

in the French departement of Aube) and died April 29, 1727, in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

Duchy of Saxony The Duchy of Saxony () was originally the area settled by the Saxons in the late Early Middle Ages, when they were subdued by Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars from 772 CE and incorporated into the Carolingian Empire (Francia) by 804. Upon the 84 ...

(now federal state of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

, Germany)) is a French sculptor who spent more of his prominent artistic life in Dresden where he was the First sculptor of the King

Augustus II the Strong Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697 to 1706 and from 1709 until his death in 1733. He belonged to the Albertine branch of the H ...

References

* Emmanuel Bénézit (consolidated under the direction of Jacques Busse edition), Dictionary sculptors designers and engravers, painters t. 4 (Coudert-Dzwonowski) Gründ, 1999, 957 p. (), p. 7 "Coudray Francis"

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* 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 1678 births 1727 deaths 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub