François Gérard

May 4, 1770 - Jan 11, 1837

François Pascal Simon Gérard, titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. After he was made a baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon, he was known formally as Baron Gérard.

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Cupid and Psyche (1798)

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Portrait of the Empress Josephine (1801)

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Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805 (1810)

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Portrait of Juliette Récamier (1802)

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Sacre de Charles X

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Corinne at Cape Misenum

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Flora Caressed by Zephyr (1802)

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Portrait of Emperor Napoleon I

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Napoleon I as Emperor (1805)

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