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 (iKUIIAUDT discovering Himself to his Brethren, now in the Angers Museum. In 1702, after a short stay in Rome, he settled in Paris, and was assigned a studio iu the Louvre, but his rep- utation was not established until 1800, when Napoleon appointed him his otlicial portrait painter. He executed many important works under the Empire, and was patronized by Louis XVIII., Charles X., and Louis Philippe. Member of the Institute, 1812 ; L. of Hon- our, Order of St. Michael ; lirst painter to the king. 1817 ; and in 181!) was created a baron. Works: liflixnriitx ; Entry of Henri IV. into Paris (replica), I'xyi-lw and Cupid (17'J8), Ihqihuix and Chloe (1824), Victory and Fame, History and Poetry, portrait of Isiibey (17!)(i), do. of Canova, do. of Charles X., Louvre, Paris; The Three Ages (IsiiS) ; Battle of Aiixln-litz (1H10), Entry of //<,/// IV. into Paris (1S17), Philippe V. of France called to the Throne of Spain (1824), Coro- nation of Charles X. (1827), Proclamation at the Hotel de Ville in Paris (l:ili). Signing the Concordat, portraits of Joachim Murat, Madame Bonaparte, Empress Josephine, Empress Marie Louise and the King of Koine, Charles X., Due de Herri, Duchesse de Berri and Children, Versailles Museum ; The Three Ages (1801!), Naples Museum ; Sappho (1810), Htiidel Gallery, Frankfort; Coriiini' ut Cape Misenum (1811)), Lyons Museum ; Ndjuilemi in Coronation Ilobcs, Dresden Museum ; Plague at Marseilles, Sanitary Department of Marseilles ; portrait of La Reveillere Lepeaux, Angers Museum ; do. of Louis XVIII., Toulouse, Marseilles, find Ajaccio Museums ; do., Hatlield House, London ; Christ descending upon Earth and scattering Darkness (18157. last work), Or- leans Museum ; portraits of Napoleon (18D.S), Josephine, Queen of Naples (1810), King of Two Sicilies, Duke of Montebello (1812), Empress Marie Louise (1814), King of Rome (1814), Comtc d'Artois, Due d'Orleans (1810), Duchesse d'Orleans (1810), Due de Char- tres (1822), Duchesse do Berri (1824), Due de Bordeaux (1824), Due de Dalmatic (1826), Madame Pasta (182G). Bellier de la Cha ignerie, i. fi.'Jfi ; Oh. Blanc, Ecole frain;aise ; Meyer, Gesch., !)<> ; Villot, Cat. D Louvre ; Lejeune, (iuide. i. 'Ml ; Xeitschr. f. 1). K., xx. 2.1i;. GERHARDT, EDfARD, born at Erfurt, April 21), 1S1:{. Landscape and architecture painter, studied from 1N.'!7 in Munich, when! he settled in 1X.">1 after ten years spent in Italy, Spain, and England. Works : Views of Cologne Cathedral (1SHK); Views in Ven- ice ; Views in the Alhambra ; San Ildefonso ; Gardens of Generalife ; ('anno Church in Lisbon ; Cintra ; S. Marco and S. Maria della Salute in Venice ; North View of Al- hambra ; Moonlight in Spanish Town ; Pal- ace of Inquisition at Cordova (1'SIJ.i), Lion's Court of Alhambra, Interior of St. Mark's in Venice, New Pinakothek, Munich ; Lion Court in the Alhambra, Palax/.o Moro. and Pala/./o Vendramin, at Venice, The Genera- life at Granada, Comares Tower of the Al- hambra, Schack Gallery, ib. Brockhaus, vii. 821); Miiller, 201. GKRIC.U'LT, JEAN LOl'lS ANDKK THKODORK, born at Rouen, Sept. 20, 17111, died in 1'aris, Jan. 18, 1824. History and ani- mal painter, pu- pil of Carle Ver- net and of Gue- rin. In 1817, after serving in the army three; years, he went to Italy and studied in Home and Florence. His Raft of the Mi'dnxii (1811), Louvre) was loudly denounced by the critics on account of its bold realism ; but its exhibition in London brought the painter 20,000 francs and on his rctuni to Paris a gold medal. He executed after- wards many studies in crayon and water-