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Marguerite Gérard

1761 - 1837

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Marguerite Gérard (28 January 1761 in Grasse – 18 May 1837 in Paris) was a French painter and printmaker working in the Rococo style. She was the daughter of Marie Gilette and perfumer Claude Gérard. At eight years old, she became the sister-in-law of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and when she was 14, she went to live with him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Gérard has received more than 78,809 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marguerite Gérard is the 841st most popular painter (up from 886th in 2019), the 2,450th most popular biography from France (up from 2,593rd in 2019) and the 155th most popular French Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Marguerite Gérard ranks 841 out of 2,023Before her are Jean Fautrier, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Vasily Polenov, Maximilien Luce, Vincenzo Catena, and Wolf Huber. After her are Helen Allingham, Roman Opałka, Stradanus, Toros Roslin, Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, and Gustave Boulanger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Marguerite Gérard ranks 17Before her are Sineperver Sultan, Louis-Léopold Boilly, Antoine Barnave, Smithson Tennant, José, Prince of Brazil, and Marie Harel. After her are Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, François Hanriot, August Batsch, Pierre Gaveaux, and Jean-Louis Pons. Among people deceased in 1837, Marguerite Gérard ranks 25Before her are Ludwig Börne, William George Horner, Jean-François Le Sueur, Mariano José de Larra, Gaspar del Bufalo, and Akbar II. After her are John Latham, François-Xavier Fabre, Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Yuri Lisyansky, Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus, and Louis-Sébastien Lenormand.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marguerite Gérard ranks 2,450 out of 6,770Before her are Roger Peyrefitte (1907), Geneviève Page (1927), Jo Schlesser (1928), Bérenger Saunière (1852), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), and Jacques Pills (1906). After her are Antoine Coysevox (1640), Blanche of Artois (1248), Félix d'Herelle (1873), Roman Opałka (1931), Charles Amadeus, Duke of Nemours (1624), and Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284).

Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Marguerite Gérard ranks 155Before her are Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686), Jacques Villon (1875), Jean François de Troy (1679), Louis Anquetin (1861), Jean Fautrier (1898), and Maximilien Luce (1858). After her are Roman Opałka (1931), Gustave Boulanger (1824), Ford Madox Brown (1821), Carolus-Duran (1837), François-Xavier Fabre (1766), and Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761).