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Hurtrelle [Hurtrel], Simon
(b Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, 1648; d Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, 11 March 1724). French sculptor. He was the son of a sculptor, Nicolas Hurtrelle ( fl c. 1650), and studied at the Académie de France in Rome from 1673 to 1682. He returned to France and was employed principally by the crown throughout his career, contributing, often in collaboration with Pierre Mazeline, to the decoration of the château of Versailles, to that of Marly and to the Invalides. He was typical of most of the sculptors assembled by Louis XIV for his great building works: a productive and conscientious interpreter of classicizing designs often provided by others. His work for Versailles included a marble statue of a Faun Playing the Flute and a sturdy marble herm of the philosopher Theophrastus (1685 and 1686–8; both Versailles, Château).
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