Étienne Le Hongre

At the Bain des Nymphes (1678–80) he was one of the sculptors providing lead bas-reliefs for the fountain setting that featured the work of François Girardon.

[2] He trained in the atelier of Jacques Sarrazin along with Gaspard and Balthazar Marsy and Pierre Le Gros the Elder, all of whom later worked at Versailles.

Etienne Le Hongre provided decorative architectural sculpture throughout his career: at the Palais du Louvre he was paid 180 livres in 1663, executed pediment trophies on the exterior of the Galerie d'Apollon facing the Seine, 1667, sculpted friezes and masques (working with Jean-Baptiste Tuby) for the facade now facing the rue de Rivoli, 1668, and provided capitals and sculpted detail for the Louvre Colonnade, 1668–70, for which he received in total 2910 livres.

[5] At Versailles, full-size sculptures were delivered by Le Hongre among many for the Grand cour: Thetis, Plenty, Authority and Africa.

Working under the direction of the architect François d'Orbay, he provided bas-reliefs in stucco and carved doors for the church of the Premonstratensians in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, Paris.

Posthumous portrait by André Bouys , 1891. Next to Le Hongre is a miniature reproduction of his last commission, an equestrian statue of King Louis XIV
The Seine in the Parterre d'Eau, Versailles
Juno and the peacock. Juno sits on a cloud with her peacock. Part of a bronze group attributed to Étienne Le Hongre, France, c. 1680-1690. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh