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François Gérard

1770 - 1837

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François Pascal Simon Gérard (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa paskal simɔ̃ ʒeʁaʁ], 4 May 1770 – 11 January 1837), titled as Baron Gérard in 1809, was a prominent French painter. He was born in Rome, where his father occupied a post in the house of the French ambassador, and his mother was Italian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Gérard has received more than 240,689 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). François Gérard is the 301st most popular painter (down from 263rd in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from Italy (down from 862nd in 2019) and the 84th most popular Italian Painter.

François Gérard was a French painter who was born in 1770 and died in 1837. He is most famous for his paintings of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, François Gérard ranks 301 out of 1,421. Before him are Louis Wain, Frans Snyders, Marie Bashkirtseff, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Salaì. After him are Thomas Couture, Masolino da Panicale, Viktor Vasnetsov, Horace Vernet, Karel van Mander, and Pieter Aertsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1770, François Gérard ranks 8. Before him are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Louis-Nicolas Davout, and William Wordsworth. After him are Anton Reicha, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Princess Carolina of Parma, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, Adam Johann von Krusenstern, and Theodoros Kolokotronis. Among people deceased in 1837, François Gérard ranks 12. Before him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giacomo Leopardi, Georg Büchner, John Field, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands. After him are Duke Pius August in Bavaria, Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Philippe Buonarroti, William George Horner, Adam Afzelius, and Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, François Gérard ranks 968 out of 4,668. Before him are Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856), Italo Gariboldi (1879), Hippolytus of Rome (170), Antonio Caldara (1670), Hugo Pratt (1927), and Theognis of Megara (-570). After him are Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609), Ildibad (450), Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548), Emilio Salgari (1862), Filippo Inzaghi (1973), and Sebastiano Serlio (1475).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, François Gérard ranks 84. Before him are Jacopo Bassano (1510), Salvator Rosa (1615), Carlo Carrà (1881), Francesco Melzi (1491), John Singer Sargent (1856), and Baldassare Peruzzi (1481). After him are Masolino da Panicale (1383), Francesco Albani (1578), Rosalba Carriera (1673), Cosimo Rosselli (1439), Niccolò dell'Abbate (1512), and Pietro Cavallini (1240).

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