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Étienne Le Hongre (7 May 1628 in Paris – 28 April 1690 in Paris) was a French sculptor, part of the team that worked for the ''Bâtiments du Roi'' at Versailles.〔"sculpteur ordinaire des Bâtiments du Roi et premier Adjoint à Recteur de l'Académie de Peinture et Sculpture", in Octave Fidière, ed., ''État-civil des peintres & sculpteurs de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture Billets d'enterrement de 1648 à 1713'' (Paris, 1883)〕 Le Hongre was one of the first generation of sculptors formed by the precepts of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. 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. Le Hongre provided other bronze figures for the ''Parterre d'Eau'' (''illustration, right''). Le Hongre was born in Paris, the son of a ''menuisier'', a carver of furniture and ''boiseries''.〔Stanislas Lami, ''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française sous le règne de Louis XIV'', Paris, 1903.〕 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. He was accepted (''agréé'') at the Académie in June 1653 and went to Rome, provided by the king with a purse of 500 ''livres''; he returned to Paris in 1659. He was accepted as a member of the Académie in April 1667 and taught in the Academy schools as an assistant professor (1670), full professor (1676) and assistant rector (1686),〔Lami 1903〕 which afforded him the lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre where he died. 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 Perrault's colonnade, 1668–70, for which he received in total 2910 ''livres''.〔All noted in Lami.〕 As he showed his skill he was commissioned to sculpt a large figure of ''Peace'' for the garden front of the Tuileries, 1666.〔Lami 1903〕 At Versailles, full-size sculptures were delivered by Le Hongre among many for the ''Grand cour'': ''Thetis'', ''Plenty'', ''Authority'' and ''Africa''. He also worked at the Samaritaine building at the Pont Neuf〔Paid 516 ''livres'', 1667 (Lami).〕 and at the Château de Choisy. He provided stucco figures and reliefs for the Chapel at the Palais du Luxembourg. 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.〔Lami 1903〕 Garden sculptures for the royal châteaux also occupied him and his assistants through his career. He provided a ''March'' and a ''September'' for a series of Months at Fontainebleau (1669), a pair of vases for the Grand Trianon (1671).〔Lami 1903〕 For the facade facing the ''Orangerie'' at Versailles he provided appropriate statues of ''Zephyr'', ''Flora'' ''Vertumnus'' and ''Pomona'', medallions of ''Vertumnus'' and ''Pomona'', and five bas-reliefs of putti engaged in gardening chores (1671). He provided sculptures representing motifs from Aesop's Fables for the small fountains in the Labyrinth (1672–73) and much similar work.〔Lami 1903〕 His sculptures for the funerary monument to the heart of Louis de Cossé, duc de Brissac (died 1661), for the Orléans chapel in the church of the Celestins, dismantled at the Revolution, are conserved at the Louvre Museum; they consist of a column and two mourning figures.〔(Louvre Museum ).〕 None of his funerary monuments survive ''in situ''. Nor do his eight suns in glory of gilded lead for the belltower of the Sainte-Chapelle, removed at the Revolution. In 1670-74 Le Hongre provided sculptural decorations for the great doors and the high altar in the chapel of the Collège des Quatre-Nations, Paris, and was one of Antoine Coysevox's collaborators on the funerary monument of Cardinal Mazarin which was still in process of completion at Le Hongre's death. His last major commission, an equestrian sculpture of Louis XIV intended for the Place Royale at Dijon was unfinished at his death. The founders, Roger Schabol and François Aubry, both sculptors in their own right, eventually had to sue Le Hongre's heirs for compensation.() Contemporaneous bronze reductions of the monument exist. He died in his apartments in the Galeries du Louvre and was buried in the church of St Germain l'Auxerrois. His portrait by André Bouys is conserved in the Musée National du château de Versailles.〔(Illustration )〕 ==Surviving sculptures== *''Mary Magdalene'', oval bas-relief medallion, marble, 1667 (L〔In the following list, sculptures noted by Lami are marked L.〕) This was his ''morceau de reception'' for the Académie. Formerly decorating the staircase in the Académie's quarters in the Louvre, it was moved to the church of Notre-Dame at Versailles in 1815 (Chapel of St. Vincent de Paul). *Architectural sculpture for the Palais du Louvre, 1663, 1667-70 (L) *Funerary monument for Louis de Cossé, duc de Brissac, Orléans (Musée du Louvre) *Kneeling figure for the funerary monument of Louis Potier, marquis de Gesvres〔Died in 1643, at the siege of Thionville (Lami 1903).〕 (L) (Musée de Versailles) *''Two Loves and a Nymph'', bronze, 1670 (model), 1688 (cast) (L) (Gardens of Versailles) *Two ''Tritons'' and two ''Sirens'', lead, 1669-71 (L) (North Parterre, Gardens of Versailles) *''Rivers and Putti'' for the Parterre d'Eau, 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Étienne Le Hongre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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