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 discovering Himself to his Brethren, now in the Angers Museum. In 1792, after a short stay in Rome, he settled in Paris, and was assigned a studio in the Louvre, but his reputation was not established until 1800, when Napoleon appointed him his official 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 Honour, Order of St. Michael; first painter to the king, 1817; and in 1819 was created a baron. Works: Belisarius; Entry of Henri IV. into Paris (replica), Psyche and Cupid (1798), Daphnis and Chloë (1824), Victory and Fame, History and Poetry, portrait of Isabey (1796), do. of Canova, do. of Charles X., Louvre, Paris; The Three Ages (1808); Battle of Austerlitz (1810), Entry of Henri IV. into Paris (1817), Philippe V. of France called to the Throne of Spain (1824), Coronation of Charles X. (1827), Proclamation at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris (1836), Signing the Concordat, portraits of Joachim Murat, Madame Bonaparte, Empress Josephine, Empress Marie Louise and the King of Rome, Charles X., Duc de Berri, Duchesse de Berri and Children, Versailles Museum; The Three Ages (1806), Naples Museum; Sappho (1810), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Corinne at Cape Misenum (1819), Lyons Museum; Napoleon in Coronation Robes, Dresden Museum; Plague at Marseilles, Sanitary Department of Marseilles; portrait of La Reveillère Lepeaux, Angers Museum; do. of Louis XVIII., Toulouse, Marseilles, and Ajaccio Museums; do., Hatfield House, London; Christ descending upon Earth and scattering Darkness (1837, last work), Orléans Museum; portraits of Napoleon (1808), Josephine, Queen of Naples (1810), King of Two Sicilies, Duke of Montebello (1812), Empress Marie Louise (1814), King of Rome (1814), Comte d'Artois, Duc d'Orléans (1819), Duchesse d'Orléans (1819), Duc de Chartres (1822), Duchesse de Berri (1824), Duc de Bordeaux (1824), Duc de Dalmatie (1826), Madame Pasta (1826).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 636; Ch. Blanc, École française; Meyer, Gesch., 96; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Lejeune, Guide, i. 397; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 256.

GERHARDT, EDUARD, born at Erfurt, April 29, 1813. Landscape and architecture painter, studied from 1837 in Munich, where he settled in 1851 after ten years spent in Italy, Spain, and England. Works: Views of Cologne Cathedral (1838); Views in Venice; Views in the Alhambra; San Ildefonso; Gardens of Generalife; Carmo Church in Lisbon; Cintra; S. Marco and S. Maria della Salute in Venice; North View of Alhambra; Moonlight in Spanish Town; Palace of Inquisition at Cordova (1863), Lion's Court of Alhambra, Interior of St. Mark's in Venice, New Pinakothek, Munich; Lion Court in the Alhambra, Palazzo Moro, and Palazzo Vendramin, at Venice, The Generalife at Granada, Comares Tower of the Alhambra, Schack Gallery, ib.—Brockhaus, vii. 829; Müller, 201.

GÉRICAULT, JEAN LOUIS ANDRÉ THÉODORE, born at Rouen, Sept. 26, 1791, died in Paris, Jan. 18, 1824. History and animal painter, pupil of Carle Vernet and of Guérin. In 1817, after serving in the army three years, he went to Italy and studied in Rome and Florence. His Raft of the Medusa (1819, 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 return to Paris a gold medal. He executed after-*wards many studies in crayon and water