Nicolas Gosse

Nicolas Gosse studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under François-André Vincent is recorded. Joseph François Paris is recorded as having studied under Nicolas Gosse. The recorded working language is French. Work by Nicolas Gosse is recorded in the collections of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet, Palace of Versailles and Château de Compiègne. Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Legion of Honour.

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.

• Illustration — Portrait of Bernard-Georges-François Frère, 1808 • Illustration — The Duchess of Orléans Visiting the Wounded of the Three Glorious Days, 1832 • Illustration — Louis Philippe Declining the Crown of Belgium Offered to His Son, 1836 • Illustration — Napoleon Receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit, 1837 • Illustration — The Congress of Erfurt, 1838 • Illustration — Louis Philippe Receiving the Order of the Garter, 1844 • Illustration — Napoleon III Visiting the Construction Site of the New Louvre, 1854