Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine

Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine
ArtistFrançois Gérard
Year1831
TypeOil on canvas, portrait painting
Dimensions118 cm × 91 cm (46 in × 36 in)
Location

Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine is an 1831 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard.[1] It depicts the French writer and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. A key figure of Romanticism, he was a noted opposition figure during the July Monarchy. He later won particular attention during the French Revolution of 1848 and unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the 1848 French presidential election, which was won by the future Napoleon III.[2]

Gérard was President of the Royal Academy. The painting is now in the collection of the Palace of Versailles, having been acquired in 1883.[3] A second, reduced replica of the painting is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.[4] A print was made based on the painting by the British engraver James Hopwood, with de Lamartine looking in the opposite direction.[5]

References

Bibliography

  • Bordes, Phillipe. Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. Yale University Press, 2007.
  • Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
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