Tag: François Gérard
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16 Works, Today, May 4th. is artist François Gérard’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #123
Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, under the title The Poems of Ossian. Ossian, a blind bard, sings of the life and battles of Fingal, a Scotch warrior. Characters and passages of Ossian are based on established Celtic and Scottish folklore.…
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François Gérard; Portrait de Juliette Récamier 05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Madame Récamier, with Footnotes. #55
François Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), was a French painter born in Rome. At the age of twelve Gérard obtained admission into the Pension du Roi in Paris. From the Pension he passed to the studio of the sculptor Augustin Pajou which he left at the end of two…