Enceladus Grove

Find the face, arms and partly buried body among the rocks. The sculptor Gaspard Marsy made the lead figure between 1675 and 1677. It represents Enceladus, one of the giants who challenged the gods of Olympus and were crushed beneath rocks. When the fountain operates, a jet rises from his mouth. The sculptor joined the violent movement of the body to that water effect. The surrounding grove also changed. Jules Hardouin-Mansart opened up its enclosure in the early eighteenth century, and restoration in the 1990s recovered its earlier trellis-lined appearance. The present space combines the surviving subject with work to recover the garden around it.