 In addition, the need for assistants brought a bevy of young sculptors and painters from all over Europe to his studio over the years like the Englishman Francis Bird and the Frenchman Guillaume Coustou who frequented his workshop before 1700, both eventually becoming significant artists in their home countries.In the 1710s we find in his workshop the German painter Franz Georg Hermann and the still very young Carle van Loo who studied drawing with Le Gros.In addition to passing on his style through students, copies and versions of important statues such as his "St. Dominic, St. Ignatius" or the "Apostle Bartholomew" can be found all over Europe and engravings were disseminated of his "Luigi Gonzaga" and "Stanislas Kostka".