Historedia
Person

Honoré Guibert

Events
1
Episodes
5
Years
1765–1769

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Honoré Guibert, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Completion of the Petit Trianon

    1765–1769

    Role: Sculptor who executed all the sculptures in the Petit Trianon

    1. 1765–1768 · Petit Trianon interiorsFinishing Campaigns of 1765–1768

      Sculptures, joinery, metalwork, and painting were completed during the 1765 to 1768 campaigns, including Guibert's Medusa bas-relief.

    2. 1768 · Petit Trianon, park of the Palace of VersaillesCompletion of the Petit Trianon

      The château was finished in 1768, four years after Madame de Pompadour's death, and inaugurated by Madame du Barry.

    3. 22 March 1768 · Petit TrianonCaresme Door-Top Painting Commission

      On 22 March 1768 Louis XV commissioned Jacques-Philippe Caresme to paint two door-top pictures inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.

    4. 1769 · Petit Trianon dining roomDining Room Paintings and First Royal Dinner

      Paintings for the dining room were executed in 1769, and Louis XV first dined there in September 1769 on a crimson damask armchair.

    5. May 1769 · Petit TrianonMechanical Tables Project Entrusted to Gamain and Richer

      In 1769, after the process was exhibited at the Louvre in May, work for Trianon was entrusted to the locksmith Gamain and the mechanic Richer.

Sources

  1. Petit Trianon Wikipedia, revision of 2026-07-01