GUÉRIN, Gilles

French sculptor. He was apprenticed to Charles Le Brun and completed two sets of Caryatids for the Louvre. In 1646, he was put in charge of the erection of Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé’s tomb in the family château de Valery. He designed the rood screen for the church of Saint-Gervais in Soissons and adorned it with several statues. He produced the ornamentation for the King’s bedroom at the Louvre. In 1654, he produced the full-length statue of Louis XIV for the courtyard of the Hôtel de Ville.

He is also responsible for a marble medallion Portrait of Descartes at the church of St-Étienne du Mont, Tritons Leading the Horses of Apollo to Drink, in the grove of the Fountain of Apollo and, near the water pyramid, the Statue of America, Henri II of Condé, the Duke and the Duchess of La Vieuville; the same can be found at the Louvre. At Maisons-Laffitte, he sculpted the reliefs of the Four Parts of the World.