#François-Joseph Kinson

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Portrait of a woman with her two children

Circa 1804, Napoleonic era, by François-Joseph Kinson

This family portrait is very interesting because it illustrates the fashion of Napoleon’s time. The mother wears a velvet dress with the characteristic high waist and puffed sleeves. Her dark blue dress with a short corsage is set with decorations inspired by military uniforms. Kinson very carefully painted these brandebourgs of gold thread and the matching knotted string with two tassels. The daughter is portrayed in a fashionable white silk dress finished with a fur strip. Her updo is very similar to her mother’s: with a parting in the middle, a chignon at the back of the head and graceful ringlets along the temples. Her brother is depicted in a dark-colored suit with a white shirt underneath with a stand-up collar. The luxurious red cashmere scarf on the velvet upholstered sofa completes the empire portrait.

(Musea Brugge)

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The artist also made separate portraits of them in the same pose:

1. Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte by François-Joseph Kinson (ca. 1808)

2. Portrait of Camillo Borghese by François-Joseph Kinson (ca. 1808)

The Prince Borghese and his wife Pauline Bonaparte by Francois Joseph Kinson, 1802-10

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Portrait of Madame Lestapis, art by François Joseph Kinson (1824)

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Pauline Bonaparte

Artist: François Joseph Kinson (Dutch, 1770-1839)

Date: 1808

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Napoleonic Museum, Rome, Italy

Pauline Bonaparte

Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: Pauline Marie Bonaparte; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's representative to the court of King Louis XVI of France. Her elder brother, Napoleon, was the first emperor of the French. She married Charles Leclerc, a French general, a union ended by his death in 1802.

Later, Pauline married Camillo Borghese, 6th Prince of Sulmona. Her only child, Dermide Leclerc, born from her first marriage, died in childhood. She was the only Bonaparte sibling to visit Napoleon in exile on his principality, Elba.

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François-Joseph Kinson

Portrait of a young man in uniform, probably a member of an Honor Guard

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1808 François-Joseph Kinson - Paolina Bonaparte

(Museo Napoleonico)

[joachimnapoleon]

Michel Ney, from the studio of François-Joseph Kinson. Undated.

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Jérôme Bonaparte in the gardens of Wilhelmshöhe by François-Joseph Kinson. Kinson was court painter to the King of Westphalia. Later, he painted Bourbon portraits.

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[ltwilliammowett]

This portrait of Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860), Napoleon’s younger brother, depicts a scene from his early adult life (from 1800 to 1806) spent in the French navy. It was painted by the prolific Flemish portraitist François-Joseph Kinson (1771–1839) (or Kinsoen with the original Flemish spelling) who would later be chosen as Jerome’s official painter when the latter was King of Westphalia. This painting is undated, details on the painting as well as chronology and circumstance would suggest that this representation most likely depicts the moment in the naval career of Jerome when, as a young Commander (after 21 May 1805), he undertook two consecutive missions between his return to Europe in April 1805 and the end of the following year. Jerome is dressed in the uniform of an officer. It is interesting to see that elements of a French commander and an admirals uniform unite here. Why ? good question can not be answered correctly.

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Jérôme in his daddy long leg era

Portrait of Jérôme Bonaparte by François-Joseph Kinson, c. 1807-1813, The Bowes Museum

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Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, par François-Joseph Kinson (1771-1839). Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, né à Pontoise, le 17 mars 1772 et mort le 2 novembre 1802 à l’île de la Tortue, près de Saint-Domingue, est un général français de la Révolution, époux de Pauline Bonaparte la sœur de Napoléon Bonaparte. Il est resté dans l’histoire pour avoir été en 1802 général en chef de l’expédition de Saint-Domingue, forte de 35 000 militaires mais défaite en 1803 lors de l’indépendance d'Haïti. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHJTcBOJdh7NF2KE8CnYUECcU4zh0ZbuUb01w0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Portrait de Catherine de Wurtemberg, Reine de Westphalie" par François-Joseph Kinson d'après François-Pascal-Simon Gérard (circa 1811) dans les Collections Permanentes du Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, juillet 2021.

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Jean Bernadotte (1763-1844)

By Joseph-Nicolas Jouy after François-Joseph Kinson, 1852.

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François-Joseph Kinson

[history-of-fashion]

1824 François-Joseph Kinson - Portrait of Madame Lestapis (née Boode), daughter of Henry Boode

(Private collection)