François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard ca. 1790 baron Antoine Jean Gros French Gros and Gérard were favored students in the rough and tumble fraternity that was David’s studio, where intense friendships and rivalries abounded. Gros probably made this sensitive, delicate portrait in Paris before his friend Gérard departed for study in Rome in 1790. Its lively surface texture and intimacy are shared with Gros’s smaller, contemporary Self-Portrait, a recent gift to The Met. Despite a subsequent rift in their friendship, Gérard kept his portrait for the rest of his life, and it remained w
François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard ca. 1790 baron Antoine Jean Gros French Gros and Gérard were favored students in the rough and tumble fraternity that was David’s studio, where intense friendships and rivalries abounded. Gros probably made this sensitive, delicate portrait in Paris before his friend Gérard departed for study in Rome in 1790. Its lively surface texture and intimacy are shared with Gros’s smaller, contemporary Self-Portrait, a recent gift to The Met. Despite a subsequent rift in their friendship, Gérard kept his portrait for the rest of his life, and it remained with his descendants until François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard 438603
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