Nicolas Gosse

Nicolas Louis François Gosse (2 October 1787 – 9 February 1878) was a French historical painter.^[1]

Le roi Louis-Philippe refuse la couronne offerte par le Congrés belge au duc de Nemours, le 17 février 1831 (King Louis Philippe declining the crown of Belgium offered to the Duke of Nemours on 17 February 1831), Palace of Versailles, 1836

Biography

Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit, 1837

Gosse was born in Paris, where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Vincent, and became a skilled representative of the academic style prevailing in his earlier period. His principal works include: Napoleon I and Queen Louise at Tilsit, Meeting of Napoleon and Alexander of Russia at Erfurt, and “Louis Philippe Declining the Crown of Belgium Offered to His Son,” all now housed in the Historical Museum at Versailles; and “Entry of the Duke of Angoulême into Madrid,” a wall painting in the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.