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Painting by François Gérard
Portrait of Louis XVIII
ArtistFrançois Gérard
Year1814
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
LocationHôtel Beauharnais, Paris

Portrait of Louis XVIII is an 1814 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Louis XVIII of France in his coronation robes.

The younger brother of Louis XVI, who had been guillotined during the French Revolution, he spent many years in exile and returned to France from England following the 1814 downfall of Napoleon and the First Restoration. Gérard rushed to complete the painting for the Paris Salon of 1814, the first of the restored monarchy. The seated position was unusual and Gérard aimed for a greater degree of naturalism. Gérard's contemporaries Antoine-Jean Gros and Robert Lefèvre both also depicted the king in his robes. In the event Louis XVIII never had a coronation ceremony, and the first and last of the Bourbon restoration was that in 1825 of his brother which Gérard notably painted as The Coronation of Charles X.

Several versions of the painting exist, with the original in the Hôtel Beauharnais. A sketch for it is now in the collection of the Palace of Versailles.

See also

References

  1. Sérullaz p.102
  2. Porterfield & Siegfried p.177
  3. Price p.119
  4. https://collections.chateauversailles.fr/#/query/c83cc8a0-c5bf-4d14-a987-8fe1f865bbf8

Bibliography

  • Porterfield, Todd & Siegfried, Susan L. Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David. Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
  • Price, Munro. The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848. Pan Macmillan, 2010.
  • Sérullaz, Arlette. French Painting: The Revolutionary Decades, 1760-1830. Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1980.
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