Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte

Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte
Artist	François Gérard
Year	1811
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions	218.5 cm × 143.5 cm (86.0 in × 56.5 in)
Location	Palace of Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau

Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte is an 1811 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Jérôme Bonaparte, then the King of Westphalia.^{[1] [2]} The younger brother of Napoleon, Emperor of France, he had been placed on the throne of the newly-created Kingdom in 1807 and held it until it was dissolved following the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. He is presented in coronation robes. The same year Gérard helped secure a commission for the young artist Horace Vernet to paint an equestrian portrait of Jérôme.^[3]

The painting is held in the collection of the Palace of Fontainebleau, outside Paris.^[4]

References

1. Dion-Tenenbaum p.88
2. Tulard p.186
3. Harkett & Hornstein p.6
4. https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50130000186

Bibliography

• Dion-Tenenbaum, Anne. L'orfèvre de Napoléon: Martin-Guillaume Biennais. Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003.
• Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
• Tulard, Jean. L'histoire de Napoléon par la peinture. Archipel, 2005.