Surroundings of Baron Gérard (1770-1837) Portrait of Louise-Scholastique Guéhéneuc, wife of Marshal Lannes, Duchess of Montebello, and her five children Oil on canvas (old lining) 35,5 x 26 cm Without frame This pochade is to be compared with an autograph reduction of the same size, painted by François Gérard in the manner of a sketch after his large portrait of the marshal Lannes (the portrait in the Sabran-Pontevès collection, its reduction dated 1818 in the Château de Versailles). More than the portrait itself, our little painting was probably modelled on one of Gérard's sketches or this vividly painted reduction.

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