François Pascal Simon GÉRARD, called BARON GÉRARD (Rome, 1770 - Paris, 1837) Landscape near Boulogne Paper mounted on canvas 29 x 40,8 cm Provenance: - Henri Gérard, nephew of the artist, then by descent Duchess Antoinette d'Harcourt, née Gérard (1909-1958), Paris. - Acquired from the latter by André Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London. - Sale by Mes Beaussant et Lefèvre, Hôtel Drouot, 28 June 2022, n° 144. Ciechanowiecki's house, n° 110. Exhibitions: - French eighteenth-century oil sketches from an english collection, Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1980, no. 25, as attributed to Baron Gérard (notice by Peter Walch). - French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition, Selections from Private Collection on Loan to the University Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Charlotte-Atlanta, 1994-1995, no. 88, as Baron Gérard (notice by Alain Latreille). - French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. Selections from Private Collection on Loan to the University Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New York, Dahesh Museum, 1998-1999, same cat. as the previous exhibition This is probably the only known landscape sketch by Baron Gérard. The flexibility of the execution allows us to place the painting quite late in the artist's career, probably during a stay in Boulogne in August 1826.