François Gérard
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François Pascal Simon Gérard, titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Ital
Portrait by Antoine-Jean Gros (1790), New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence (c. 1824)
Family tomb in Montparnasse Cemetery
Marius Returning to Rome, 1789
Louis XVIII
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Louis XVIII, known as the Desired, was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. Before his reign, he spent 23 years in exile from France begin
François Gérard
…of the First French Empire (1804–1815) and the Bourbon Restoration (1815–1830). Court painter to Emperor Napoleon and later First Painter to Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X, Gérard enjoyed great renown across Europe. Nicknamed “the painter of kings, the king of painters”, he was the portraitist of choice for…
Portrait of Louis XVIII by François Gérard, 1814
The Count of Provence and his brother Louis Auguste, Duke of Berry (later Louis XVI), depicted in 1757 by François-Hubert Drouais
Marie Joséphine in 1772 (by François-Hubert Drouais)
Louis Stanislas, Count of Provence, during the reign of Louis XVI