Deserved Sorrows
1788 · oil on canvas
overall: 45 × 55 cm (17 11/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
National Gallery of Art
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Marguerite Gérard
?–1837
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Marguerite Gérard was a French painter of small-scale interior scenes executed in oil on panel with meticulous attention to light, texture, and domestic detail. Working in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, she maintained a refined genre tradition oriented toward private collectors rather than academic exhibition. Her compositions captured intimate moments of household life with a technical precision rooted in 18th-century practice, even as Romanticism dominated her era. Based in Grasse, Gérard sustained this disciplined approach to easel painting throughout her long career.
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