Portrait of Jean-Antoine Chaptal

{{Short description|Painting by Antoine-Jean Gros}}

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| title=Portrait of Jean-Antoine Chaptal

| artist=Antoine-Jean Gros

| year=1824

| type=Oil on canvas, portrait painting

| height_metric=136.5

| width_metric=114.3

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| museum=Cleveland Museum of Art

| city=Ohio

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Portrait of Jean-Antoine Chaptal is an 1824 portrait painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros.Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, 1771-1835: Painter of Battles, the First Romantic Painter. Jacques Seligmann & Company, 1955. p.25Chong p.92 It depicts the French scientist and politician Jean-Antoine Chaptal who served as Minister of the Interior from 1800 to 1804 during the French Consulate.Burton p.88 He is shown writing his memoirs and dressed in the robes of the Académie Française with the sash of the Order of Saint Michael and the Legion of Honour. It was the only painting exhibited by Gros at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre, likely due to his heavy involvement with the decoration of the Panthéon cupola. His sole work was nonetheless widely praised by critics.Noon & Bann p.186 Today the painting is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio, having been purchased in 1964.https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.54