Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of General Maurice-Êtienne Gérard
1816197.2 x 136.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the pedastal base, lower center: L. DAVID 1816 / BRUX.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, and Mary Wetmore Sively Bequest, in memory of her husband, Henry L. Shively, M.D.
Provenance
the sitter, Brussels and château de Villers Saint-Paul, Oise, until died 1852
his grandson, Jean-Etienne Desmiers d'Olbreuse, comte d'Archiac, château de Villers Saint-Paul, 1852–died 1927
his nephew and adopted son, comte Ferdinand de Bryas-Desmiers d'Archiac, 1927–died 1958
his estate, 1958–59, sold to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein, Paris and New York, 1959–65, sold to MMA
Other works by Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of Comte Henri-Amédé de Turenne
1816
1816
The Distribution of the Eagles
1808-10
1808-10
Madame Raymond de Verninac
1798-99
1798-99
The Anger of Achilles
1825
1825
Portrait of Claude-Marie Meunier
c. 1810-13
c. 1810-13