Portrait of Étienne Maurice Gérard

Portrait of Étienne Maurice Gérard is an 1816 portrait painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David of Étienne Maurice Gérard, a general who distinguished himself during the Napoleonic Wars.

[1] Both men were strongly associated with the recently defeated Emperor Napoleon and had gone into exile in Brussels following the Bourbon Restoration.

During the July Monarchy he commanded French troops intervening in Belgium and successfully besieged Antwerp in 1832.

[4] Gérard is shown in the dark-blue uniform of a general of the Empire and wears various decorations including the Legion of Honour.

It may have been commissioned to celebrate the sitter's marriage to Rosemonde de Valence thay year.