Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte is an 1811 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard depicting Jérôme Bonaparte, then the King of Westphalia.Dion-Tenenbaum p.88Tulard p.186 The younger brother of Napoleon, Emperor of France, he had been placed on the throne of the newly-created Kingdom in 1807 and held it until it was dissolved following the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. He is presented in coronation robes. The same year Gérard helped secure a commission for the young artist Horace Vernet to paint an equestrian portrait of Jérôme.Harkett & Hornstein p.6
The painting is held in the collection of the Palace of Fontainebleau, outside Paris.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/50130000186
See also Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, an 1808 portrait by Gérard featuring Jérôme's elder brother
References
Bibliography Dion-Tenenbaum, Anne. L'orfèvre de Napoléon: Martin-Guillaume Biennais. . Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003. Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. . Dartmouth College Press, 2017. Tulard, Jean. L'histoire de Napoléon par la peinture. . Archipel, 2005.