Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte

Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte is an 1811 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Jérôme Bonaparte, then the King of Westphalia.

[1] [2] The younger brother of Napoleon, Emperor of France, he had been placed on the throne of the newly-created Kingdom in 1807 and held it until it was dissolved following the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.

The same year Gérard helped secure a commission for the young artist Horace Vernet to paint an equestrian portrait of Jérôme.

[3] The painting is held in the collection of the Palace of Fontainebleau, outside Paris.

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