Portrait of Michel Louis Etienne, Comte Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angély
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
image: 19 5/16 x 12 11/16 in. (49.1 x 32.3 cm) sheet: 21 7/16 x 14 15/16 in. (54.4 x 38 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
Accession Number
50.576.11
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
baron François Gérard|Charles Simon Pradier · 1770–1837
**Baron François Gérard (1770–1837)** was a leading French Neoclassical painter renowned for his elegant portraits of European royalty and political figures. Born François Pascal Simon Gérard in Rome to a French father serving in the Papal States and an Italian mother, he returned with his family to Paris around 1782. There he began his artistic training, first studying sculpture under Augustin Pa...