Jean-Baptiste Regnault: Marriage of Prince Jérôme Bonaparte
and the Princess Frédérique Catherine of Württemberg
Jérôme Bonaparte was Napoleon's youngest brother. The marriage depicted here was, of course, arranged by Napoleon. This was his second marriage; the first, to the daughter of an American merchant, was forcibly ended by Napoleon to further his own ambitions.
Regnault (1754-1829) was a Neoclassic painter, one of the few successful ones outside of the orbit of Jacques-Louis David.
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