Title: An Allegory of Empress Josephine as Patroness of the Gardens at Malmaison
Object type: Drawing
Date: ca. 1805–6
Artist:  baron François Gérard 
Artist bio: French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink, over black chalk underdrawing on paper, laid down on board
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. (13.7 x 21.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2003
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Sculpture, term: Fountains, term: Women, term: Flowers