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François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837)

Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, Baron of the Empire

Arms of François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837)

Born on May 4, 1770 in Rome.

French neoclassical painter.

Principal works: "Cupid and Psyche", "The Battle of Austerlitz", "On the bank of the Lora, Ossian conjures up a Spirit with the sound of his harp", and many portraits: Emperor Napoleon I (in coronation robes, in front of the Chateau De Malmaison...), Madame Mère (Napoleon's mother), Empress Joséphine, Jerome Bonaparte King of Westphalia, Désirée Clary, Mrs Tallien, Countess Walewska, Antoine-François Fourcroy, Juliette Récamier, Caroline Murat with her children, Joachim Murat King of Naples, Empress Marie-Louise and her son Napoleon-François, General Jean-Victor Moreau, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, Hortense de Beauharnais, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Alphonse de Lamartine, Prince Eugene of Sweden...

He died on January 11, 1837 in Paris and was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery (1st division)  Tomb of François Pascal Simon Gérard.

"François Pascal Simon Gérard, aged 54" by Sir Thomas Lawrence (Bristol 1769 - London 1830).

"François Pascal Simon Gérard, aged 54" by Sir Thomas Lawrence (Bristol 1769 - London 1830).

Other portraits

François Pascal Simon Gérard (1770-1837)
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"François Pascal Simon Gérard" by Antoine-Jean Gros (Paris 1771 - Meudon 1835).