Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte is an 1808 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard.Dwyer p.218The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography: An International Reference Work, Volume 2. McGraw-Hill, 1973. p.54 It depicts Joseph Bonaparte, recently created King of Spain, in his coronation robes.Nicholls p.32 Joseph, the elder brother of Napoleon, had been King of Naples until he had been placed on the throne of Spain which triggered the Peninsular War.
Gérard, a neoclassical painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, produced a number of depictions of the extended Bonaparte dynasty. Today the painting is in the collection of the Palace of Fontainebleau outside Paris, having been acquired in 1981.
See also Napoleon I as Emperor, an 1805 portrait by Gérard Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte, an 1811 portrait by Gérard
References
Bibliography Dwyer, Philip. Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power. . Yale University Press, 2013. Nicholls, David. Napoleon: A Biographical Companion. . Bloomsbury Academic, 1999.