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.

His first wife, Jeanne (married 1663), was the sister of the sculptors Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy,[2] and gave him a son, the better known Pierre Le Gros the Younger who worked almost entirely in Rome.

His lifelong work for the Bâtiments du Roi started in 1666 with payments for specific commissions; from 1674 to 1713 he additionally received an annual salary, and at some point was also given a studio in the Louvre Palace.

Much of his other works in Paris was for the Dôme des Invalides, mostly architectural sculpture (1690-1701) and the relief Saint Louis Serving the Poor (1691–93).

Not much details are known about Le Gros' work in Saint-Cloud from 1706 to 1711 for the elector of Bavaria, Maximilian II Emanuel who found refuge there for a period of time.