It might come as a surprise to find Napoleon in a hotel bar in Dallas. When I first saw François Gérard’s (1770-1837) portrait of the emperor at the Adolphus Hotel, the painting had been ...

261 x 185 cm. (102.8 x 72.8 in.) Given by King Charles X to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Talleyrand (1754-1838) to commemorate the occasion of his coronation at Reims, 1825, and ...

Italian authorities have rescinded an export license for a nineteenth-century painting by the French artist François Gérard. The piece, the Frick Collection’s first purchased painting since 1991, is ...

This is, indeed, how she appears in François Gérard’s 1801 portrait of her: languidly sunk into her sofa, a bouquet of freshly picked flowers by her side, her teeming garden behind her.

Months after the Frick Collection in New York bought a vaunted 19th-century portrait by the French painter François Gérard, the Italian government has revoked the export licence it granted for ...