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BARON FRANCOIS GERARD (1770-1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 765 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:FRANCOIS See also:GERARD (1770-1837)  , See also:French painter, was See also:born on the 4th of May 1770, at See also:Rome, where his See also:father occupied a See also:post in the See also:house of the French See also:ambassador . At the See also:age of twelve See also:Gerard obtained See also:admission into the See also:Pension du Roi at See also:Paris . From the Pension he passed to the studio of satirical See also:humour, soon came to enjoy a See also:general popularity . Besides supplying illustrations for various See also:standard See also:works, such as the songs of See also:Beranger, the fables of La See also:Fontaine, See also:Don Quixote, Gulliver's Travels, See also:Robinson Crusoe, he also continued the issue of various lithographic collections, among which may be mentioned La See also:Vie privee et publique See also:des animaux, See also:Les Cent Proverbes, L'Autre Monde and Les Fleurs animees . Though the designs of Gerard are occasionally unnatural and absurd, they usually display keen See also:analysis of See also:character and marvellous inventive ingenuity, and his humour is always tempered and refined by delicacy of sentiment and a vein of sober thoughtfulness . He died of See also:mental disease on the 17th of See also:March 1847 . A See also:short See also:notice of Gerard, under the name of Grandville, is contained in See also:Theophile See also:Gautier's Portraits contemporains . See also See also:Charles See also:Blanc, Grandville (Paris, 1855) .

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