Portrait of Alphonse de Lamartine is an 1831 portrait painting by the French artist François Gérard.Bordes p.336 It depicts the French writer and politician Alphonse de Lamartine. A key figure of Romanticism, he was a noted opposition figure during the July Monarchy. He later won particular attention during the French Revolution of 1848 and unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in the 1848 French presidential election, which was won by the future Napoleon III.Murray p.634-36
Gérard was President of the Royal Academy. The painting is now in the collection of the Palace of Versailles, having been acquired in 1883.https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE013296 A second, reduced replica of the painting is in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/portrait-d-alphonse-de-lamartine-1790-1869-poete-historien-et-homme#infos-principales A print was made based on the painting by the British engraver James Hopwood, with de Lamartine looking in the opposite direction.https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1901-1022-476
References
Bibliography Bordes, Phillipe. Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. Yale University Press, 2007. Murray, Christopher John. Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 2004.