To the Genius of Franklin

Marguerite Gérard was a French painter of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, working primarily in oil on panel in a refined genre style. Her small-scale interior scenes depicted domestic life with meticulous attention to light, texture, and intimate domestic detail. Active during the Romantic period, she maintained an attachment to the 18th-century tradition of finely wrought easel paintings executed for private collectors.

Grasse, France