François Coudray (born c. 1678 in Villecerf, in the

Province of Champagne Champagne () was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieva ...

(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. The communes cooperate in the foll ...

in the French departement of Aube) and died April 29, 1727, in Dresden, Duchy of Saxony (now federal state of Saxony, 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.

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