12 March 1770 - 11 January 1837) was a French painter born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador. His mother was Italian. As a baron of the Empire he is sometimes referred to as Baron Gerard. Related Paintings of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard :. | Portrait of French stateman Charles Maurice Talleyrand-Perigord | Napoleon Ier en costume du Sacre | comtesse du Cayla | Louis-Philippe Ier, roi des Francais, prete serment sur la Charte | Portrait of la duchesse de Berry et ses enfants | Related Artists:
Maurice Denis1870-1943
French
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French painter, designer, printmaker and theorist. Although born in Normandy, Denis lived throughout his life in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, just west of Paris. He attended the Lycee Condorcet, Paris, where he met many of his future artistic contemporaries, then studied art simultaneously at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and at the Academie Julian (1888-90). Through fellow student Paul Serusier, in 1888 he learnt of the innovative stylistic discoveries made that summer in Pont-Aven by Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard. With Serusier and a number of like-minded contemporaries at the Academie Julian
Pierre-Adolphe Badinpainted Portrait of Charles Coiffier, in 1837
Christian Gottlieb Schickpainted Porträt Frau von Cotta in 1802