Gilles Guérin (1611–1678) was a French sculptor, who created tomb sculptures and decorative sculptures for interiors, which were executed in a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

idiom. He was born and died in Paris. He was a pupil of the sculptor Nicolas Le Brun, the father of the painter Charles Le Brun.

Notable works

*Chimney pieces and the bas-reliefs of the ''Four Elements'' in the Vestibule at the Château de Maisons. * Decorative sculpture at the

Château de Guermantes Château de Guermantes is a Château located in Guermantes, Seine-et-Marne, northern France. It is a listed monument since 1944. Construction and design Construction of the Château de Guermantes was undertaken by Claude Viole (died 1638), whose fa ...

. * Ceiling and bed alcove sculpture, to designs of Louis Le Vau for the bedroom for Louis XIV in the Pavillon du Roi of the

Louvre Palace The Louvre Palace (french: link=no, Palais du Louvre, ), often referred to simply as the Louvre, is an iconic French palace located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, occupying a vast expanse of land between the Tuileries Ga ...

. Reerected in the gallery housing Egyptian New Kingdom works of art

*Reclining figure (''gisant'') of Henry II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, the father of the Grand Condé, for his tomb in the church of

Vallery Vallery () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. History The town was acquired by Louis de Bourbon, ''prince de Condé'' - uncle of the future Henry IV of France. The town thus formed part o ...

(Yonne), 1646-51. A one-third scale terracotta model for the finished marble, pointed preparatory to being scaled up, is conserved in the Musée du Louvre. *Kneeling figures for the tomb of the duc Charles de La Vieuville (died 1653) and Marie Bouhier (died 1663). Contract dated 1658; dismantled at the Revolution; preserved in the Musée du Louvre *''Louis XIV Crushes the Fronde'', commissioned 27 March 1653 by the aldermen of the city of Paris and erected 23 June 1654, in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville. The original passed into the hands of the Bourbon-Condé familyThe Bourbon-Condé had been prominent opponents of the king during the aristocratic rebellion called the Fronde and may have preferred a less public exhibition of the yoked figure beneath the king's heel. and is preserved at the Château de Chantilly. A terracotta model is conserved in the Musée du Louvre. *''Triton grooming horse of Apollo'', to an idea by

Claude Perrault Claude Perrault (25 September 1613 – 9 October 1688) was a French physician and an amateur architect, best known for his participation in the design of the east façade of the Louvre in Paris.Charles Le Brun, in the Grotto of Thetis, Versailles, 1665. (noted in Hedin 2001) * Palais du Louvre, Cour Carrée. Roof caryatids, after designs of

Jacques Sarrazin Jacques Sarazin or Sarrazin ( baptised 8 June 1592 in Noyon – died 3 December 1660 in Paris) was a French sculptor in the classical tradition of Baroque art. He was instrumental in the development of the Style Louis XIV through his own wor ...

. * ''L'Amérique'', terminated by Henri Emericq, one of the statues of the "quatre parties du monde" of the

Grande Commande The ''grande commande'' was a commission ordered by Louis XIV for statues intended to decorate the ''parterre d’eau'' of the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, as initially conceived in 1672. The commission, which included 24 statues and four gr ...

, for the Gardens of Versailles.

Notes

References

Louvre: sculptures by Gilles GuérinJoconde database: Gilles Guérin
*Thomas F. Hedin, "The Petite Commande of 1664: Burlesque in the gardens of Versailles", ''The Art Bulletin'' December 2001
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guerin, Gilles French sculptors French male sculptors 1611 births 1678 deaths