Flora Caressed by Zephyr (French: Flore caressée par Zéphyr), also titled Dawn (L'Aurore), is an 1802 oil painting by the French painter François Gérard which depicts the love of Flora (Spring) and Zephyr (the West Wind) from Graeco-Roman mythology.

[1] The picture was produced in 1802 as part of a series of works commissioned for the private mansion of Charles Gaudin, the French Minister of Finance.

The painter refers to the loves of Chloris (Flora) and Zephyr, recounted by Ovid in the Fasti.

[4] Gérard had his first success with Cupid and Psyche (1798), but only achieved real fame after about 1800, when Napoleon and his circle made him their favourite painter.

[1] Flore Caressed by Zephyr (1802) was one of a series of works commissioned for the private mansion of the French Minister of Finance Charles Gaudin, and was probably matched by a representation of Danaë by Girodet, now in the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig.