 He built on this experience and mixed it with an admiration for Bernini's high baroque.His love for fine detail is something he shared with older French sculptors like François Girardon and Antoine Coysevox.Imbued with the French academic practice of searching for exemplary prototypes, Le Gros looked very closely at all the art around him and found solutions by today less well known sculptors like Melchiorre Cafà and Domenico Guidi but also painters like Giovanni Battista Gaulli helpful, and he adapted them for his own work, often transformed to such a degree that the prototype is hard to pinpoint.