Baron GERARD, after The Emperor Napoleon I full-length in coronation dress. by Boucher-Desnoyer, B.E. First Empire period. Under glass gilded and blackened wood frame with palmettes. Height: 100 cm - Width: 82 cm (frame). History : Auguste BOUCHER-DESNOYERS (1779-1857), who had impressed Napoleon with his print of Raphael's Belle Jardinière for the Louvre, was commissioned in 1804 to engrave this official portrait after François Gérard.