Marguerite Gerard. Marguerite Gerard was a successful French painter and print-maker working in the Rococo style.
She was the daughter of Marie Gilette and perfumer Claude Gerard. At eight years old she became the sister-in-law of Jean-Honore Fragonard, and when she was 14, she went to live with him.
She was also the aunt of the artist Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard. Gerard became Fragonard's pupil in the mid-1770s and studied painting, drawing and printmaking under his tutelage.
Gerard and Fragonard created nine etchings in 1778. Historians currently believe Gerard was the sole artist of five of these etchings since many have a duplicate created by her tutor Fragonard.
More than 300 genre paintings, 80 portraits, and several miniatures have been documented to Gerard. One of her paintings, The Clemency of Napoleon, was purchased by Napoleon in 1808. Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gerard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honor Fragonard. She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. By 1785 she had established a reputation for being a gifted genre painter, the first French woman to do so. Of particular interest to Gerard were the genre scenes of the Dutch Golden Age which she would emulate in her own wor
She was the daughter of Marie Gilette and perfumer Claude Gerard. At eight years old she became the sister-in-law of Jean-Honore Fragonard, and when she was 14, she went to live with him.
She was also the aunt of the artist Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard. Gerard became Fragonard's pupil in the mid-1770s and studied painting, drawing and printmaking under his tutelage.
Gerard and Fragonard created nine etchings in 1778. Historians currently believe Gerard was the sole artist of five of these etchings since many have a duplicate created by her tutor Fragonard.
More than 300 genre paintings, 80 portraits, and several miniatures have been documented to Gerard. One of her paintings, The Clemency of Napoleon, was purchased by Napoleon in 1808. Upon the death of her mother in 1775, Marguerite Gerard, the youngest of the seven children, took up residence in the Louvre with her sister and her sister's husband Jean-Honor Fragonard. She lived in the Louvre with them for approximately thirty years, allowing her to view and be inspired by great artworks of the past and present. By 1785 she had established a reputation for being a gifted genre painter, the first French woman to do so. Of particular interest to Gerard were the genre scenes of the Dutch Golden Age which she would emulate in her own wor
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