Pierre Le Gros the Elder

Pierre Le Gros
Vénus sortant du Bain, 1685-89, Gardens of Versailles
Born
Chartres
BaptisedMay 27, 1629
DiedMay 11, 1714(1714-05-11) (aged 84)
Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationSculptor
StyleBaroque

Pierre Le Gros the Elder (baptised 27 May 1629 Chartres – died 11 May 1714 Paris)[1] was a French sculptor in the service of King Louis XIV.

  1. ^ Gerhard Bissell, Le Gros, Pierre (1629), in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 83, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023188-5.