Joseph Boze

[2] Boze initially supported the French Revolution, having joined the Jacobin Club.

He painted portraits of numerous leaders of the Revolution, including Robespierre, Marat and Desmoulins, and French military officers such as Lafayette and Berthier.

Under the constitutional monarchy he remained loyal to Louis XVI, and in 1792 acted as an intermediary between him and the Girondins.

He signed a petition in 1799 to have the name of fellow painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun removed from the list of émigrés.

[2] Little is known about his life during the subsequent Consulate and the Empire, though he was attested to be living in Paris's quartier de la Sorbonne in 1805 and 1811.