François Gerard

See also: Gerard

François Pascal Simon, baron Gerard , (Rome, May 4th 1770 — Paris, January 11th 1837) is a painter of history and a neo-classic portraitist French.

Wire of the intendant of the cardinal François-Joachim of Pierre de Bernis. Initially Augustin Pajou raises, then of David at the school of which Gerard tries the “great kind”: the painting of history or allegory. Its beginnings in full Revolution are difficult: failure with the contest for the price of Rome, return in Italy then return to Paris to avoid the inscription on the list of the emigrants.

He escaped, thanks to his David Master, with the conscription by being made name sworn with the revolutionary Tribunal, function that, simulating an infirmity, he exerted little.

Like Girodet, it illustrated a time of traditional works. Ossian evokes the phantoms with the sound of the toothing-stone on the edges of Lora of 1801 preserves the poetic character of a draft at the unreal light.

Well-known because many and appreciated, its paintings of portraits can be admired for their virtuosity, thanks to the astonishing gallery of reductions (called “drafts”) kept in the workshop in Versailles. Directions of nature, symbol of the silhouette seconded well to space, slightly vaporous light, these qualities evoke Prud' hon and the English school

Under the Empire he became the portraitist of the court: Madam de Visconti, Régnault countess. It has the taste of the brilliant matter, the clear light and the glacis: in its table Madam Récamier (1805) which one can compare with the table of David of 1800, sober, on plain bottom and with simple behavior on a couch with the antique. Here the dress is more elaborate with an evocation in bottom of landscape, masked by a hanging.

In 1808, it carries out a portrait of the Emperor, very famous table.

Some tables of history:

  • Austerlitz, with the almost traditional treatment of the battle in the tradition of the 18th century.
  • Entered of Henri IV in Paris. This table of 1817 which had a great success, is an order of the Bourbons which wants to prove their legitimacy, following Napoleonean forwarding, by their fastening by blood with Henri IV.

The baron Gerard was attached a long time to the Louvre. He also had a political career, like deputy of Bayeux.

Its tomb, whose stele is decorated medallions and low-reliefs signed by Antoine Dantan, is with the Cimetière of Montparnasse in Paris (division 1, section 1).

Works

  • Portrait of the queen Shines of Prussia, towards 1795-1800
  • Allégorie " Psyché and Amour" , 1798, Paris, Museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of the Empress Joséphine in Malmaison, 1799
  • Portrait of Desired Clary, 1800
  • Allégorie “Ossian calls upon the Spirits”, 1801
  • Portrait of Mrs Tallien, 1804, Paris, Musée Carnavalet
  • Portrait of Antoine-François Fourcroy, 1808, Châteaux of Versailles and Trianon
  • Portrait bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul, 1803, Chantilly, museum Condé
  • Portrait of Juliette Récamier sitting, 1805, Paris, museum Carnavalet
  • Portrait of Caroline Murat surrounded by her children, National museum of the castle of Fontainebleau
  • Portrait of Joachim Murat - king de Naples-, castle of Versailles,
  • Representation of the Entry of Henry IV in Paris, museum of the castle of Versailles
  • the Sacring of Charles X, about 1825, Rheims, Palate of Thau: to see table
  • Portrait " Marie-Louise 1791 - 1847, archduchess of Austria, Empress of French and Napoleon-François 1811 - 1832, king de Rome" , national museum of the castles of Versailles and Trianon
  • Representation of Napoleon with horse with the Battle of Austerlitz, 1805, Castle of Versailles, Gallery of the Battles
  • Draft of the General Jean-Victor Moreau, museum of Versailles
  • Portrait of Talleyrand sitting, 1806, castle of Valencay
  • Allegory three ages of the Man, 1806, Chantilly, museum Cop
  • Portrait of the Emperor Napoleon i out of dress of sacring, about 1806, German National museum of History/royal possession of Sweden several copies on lithon (Rijk museum of Amsterdam)
  • Portrait of Napoleon i, 1808
  • Portrait of the Tsar Alexandre Ier of Russia, 1814, cantonal museum of the Art schools de Vaux (Swiss)
  • Portrait of Hortense de Beauharnais
  • Portrait of Joséphine Impératrice
  • Portrait of Constancy Ossolinska Lubienska, 1814, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of Louis-Philippe, 1823, museum of the castle of Versailles
  • Portrait of Thomaso Sgricci, 1824, Modena, Musée of Medieval and Modern Art
  • Portrait of the baron Philippe-François-Didier Usquin, particular collection
  • mural allegorical Fresques of the the Pantheon (Paris): death, the Fatherland, Glory, Justice, 1821 - 1827
  • Portrait of Alphonse of Lamartine, 1831, museum of the castle of Versailles
  • Portrait of the Lady to the Toothing-stone, particular collection
  • Portrait of Prince Eugene of Sweden holding his daughter by the hand, Sweden
  • Portrait of Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, museum of Versailles
  • Portrait of Eugenie de Beauharnais
  • Portrait of the Regnault Countess of Midsummer's Day d' Angely, Paris, museum of Louvre

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