#Giovanni Battista Gigola

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Two portraits of Francesca Lechi

1. By Giovanni Battista Gigola, 1800

2. By Andrea Appiani, 1803

Francesca Lechi was involved in Napoleonic events in Italy, such as the Revolution in Brescia, which took place when Napoleon’s army entered the region in 1797. She met Joachim Murat at a ball, and the two had an affair. She even followed him to Paris, until her husband wrote to Napoleon complaining of the situation. She was active in political events, procuring the fabric used for the tricolor flag hoisted on the Broletto in Brescia.

Stendhal, in Vie de Napoléon, said of her:

“Countess Gherardi, daughter of Count Lecchi, had perhaps the most beautiful eyes in Brescia, the land of beautiful eyes. She added to all her father’s genius a gentle cheerfulness, a real simplicity, which was never altered.”

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Giovanni Battista Gigola (1796-1841)

Venere e Marte

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Portrait of an unnamed man from the court of Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, by Giovanni Battista Gigola, 1812.

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Portrait of a young woman by Giovanni Battista Gigola, 1797-99

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Giovanni Battista Gigola      Francesca Ghirardi Lechi

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Giovanni Battista Gigola  (1769–1841)

Ritratto di giovane fanciulla in un paesaggio

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806), Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Size: Diameter 2 5/8 in. (66 mm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501

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Giovanni Battista Gigola, Autoritratto del’artista (c. 1805)

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Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of Italy, 1805. By Giovanni Battista Gigola.

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806), Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Size: Diameter 2 5/8 in. (66 mm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806) by Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806) by Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806) by Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806) by Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ivory

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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi (1773–1806) by Giovanni Battista Gigola, European Paintings

Medium: Ivory

Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436501