François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard
baron Antoine Jean Gros
ca. 1790
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
22 1/8 x 18 5/8 in. (56.2 x 47.3 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2002
Accession Number
2002.441
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
baron Antoine Jean Gros · 1771–1835
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros (1771–1835) was born in Paris to the miniature painter Jean-Antoine Gros and the artist Pierrette-Madeleine-Cécile Durand. Displaying prodigious talent from childhood, he began drawing under his father's tutelage at age six. In 1785, at just fourteen, Gros entered the studio of Jacques-Louis David, the preeminent Neoclassical master, while attending classes at the Collège M...