François Gérard, French painter (died 1837)

François Gérard

French painter (1770–1837)

François Pascal Simon Gérard, titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. After he was made a baron of the Empire in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon, he…