François Gérard
François-Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (born March 12, 1770 in Rome , † January 11, 1837 in Paris ) was a French portrait painter .
Life
Gérard was the son of a French and an Italian and came to Paris as a child . There he was a student of the sculptor Augustin Pajou and the painter Jacques-Louis David , who hired him as an assistant in 1791.
Politically flexible, Gérard came to terms with all the rulers of the French Revolution (1789), Napoleon and the following Bourbons . David got him a jury position in the Revolutionary Tribunal , which Gérard evaded by constantly reporting sick. In 1819, because of his picture, Henry IV was entrusted to Paris by King Louis XVIII. ennobled as a baron . He received the post of royal court painter and the cross of the Legion of Honor . Honoré de Balzac was one of his friends .
Works
Gérard mainly painted mythological and historical pictures, for which he adopted David's neoclassical style, but enriched it with a dreamy note. He was court painter to Napoleon and King Louis XVIII, portrait painter to the Bourbons and other princes. Many of his portraits also show friends and his own relatives. He can be described as the most popular portrait painter of the Empire .
- Isabey and his daughter (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1795, oil on canvas, 195 × 130 cm
- Cupid and Psyche (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1798, oil on canvas, 186 × 132 cm
- Queen Hortense (private property), oil on canvas, 66 × 56 cm
- Joachim Murat (Naples, Museo di San Martino), 1800–10, oil on canvas, 218 × 141 cm
- Ossian awakens spirits on the banks of the Lora with the sound of his harp (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), after 1801, oil on canvas, 184.5 × 194.5 cm
- Madame Récamier (Paris, Musée Carnavalet), 1802, oil on canvas, 225 × 145 cm
- Maria Letizia Ramolino Bonaparte, called Madame Mère ( Scottish National Gallery ), 1802–1804, oil on canvas, 210.80 × 129.80 cm (copy by Pierre-Edmond Martin , 1810, in the Palace of Caserta )
- Madame Tallien (private property), 1804, oil on canvas, 200 × 110 cm
- Moritz Christian Reichsgraf von Fries with his wife Maria Theresia Josepha, b. Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingfürst, and their son Moritz (Vienna, Austrian Gallery), around 1805, oil on canvas, 223 × 163.5 cm
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Napoleon in coronation regalia (Fontainebleau Castle), 1805, oil on canvas, 225 × 147 cm
- Napoleon in coronation regalia in the collection of the Chief Postmaster Schuster
- Marquis de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza (private property), oil on canvas, 80 × 74 cm
- Marie-Julie Bonaparte with her two daughters Charlotte and Zénaide (Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland), 1808–09, oil on canvas, 200 × 144 cm
- Marquise Visconti (Paris, Musée du Louvre), 1810, oil on canvas, 224 × 144 cm
- Desirée Clary (Paris, Musée Marmottan), 1810, oil on canvas
- Marie Luise and the King of Rome (Versailles Palace), 1813, oil on canvas, 240 × 162 cm
- Coronation of Charles X (Chartres, Musée des Beaux Arts), 1827, oil on canvas, 514 × 972 cm
- Saint Theresa (Paris, Infirmerie Marie-Therése), 1827, oil on canvas, 172 × 93 cm
- Louis-Philippe swears by the constitution of 1830 , ( Versailles , Musée du Château de Versailles), 1834, oil on canvas, 222 × 156 cm
Cupid and Psyche , 1798
Portrait by Julie Récamier , 1802
Napoleon in coronation regalia , 1805
Saint Theresa , 1827
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Web links
- Literature by and about François Gérard in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by François Gérard at Zeno.org .
Individual evidence
- ↑ JL Schmidmer (1779–1831): Directory of the books, oil paintings, copper engravings, water and enamel paintings, ... of the postmaster Schustern who died in Nuremberg ... , oil paintings .; P. 15, position 1. online
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gérard, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gérard, François P .; Gérard, Fr .; Gérard, François Pascal Simon; Gérard, François-Pascal-Simon Baron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1837 |
| Place of death | Paris |