Portrait of Napoleon I
Medium
Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch, 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame
Dimensions
87 1/2 × 57 1/2 in. (222.3 × 146.1 cm) Framed: 8 ft. 9 3/4 in. × 75 3/4 in. (268.6 × 192.4 cm)
Classification
Textiles-Tapestries
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1943
Accession Number
43.99
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
baron François Gérard|Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Michel Henri Cozette|Harland the Elder|Abel Nicolas Sollier|Charles Duruy|Napoléon Bonaparte · 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...