# Portrait of Françoise Simonnier and her Daughter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GROS, Antoine-Jean]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm ## Commentary This painting is an autograph second version of the portrait of Françoise Simonnier and her daughter which is now in the collection of the Wallraf-Richarz Museum, Cologne. Françoise Simonnier was a laundress and the mistress of Gros, with whom she had a daughter in 1827. Gros depicts her as a radiant young woman holding their child on her lap; the girl pulls gently at the bodice of her mother's dress revealing her breast. Both sitters engage the viewer directly, drawing them into this intimate moment. ## Related artworks - [Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole]() - [Bonaparte on the Bridge at Arcole]() - [Christine Boyer]() - [Madame Pasteur]() - [Napoleon Bonaparte on the Battlefield of Eylau, 1807]() - [Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-stricken at Jaffa]() - [Portrait of Madame Récamier]() - [Portrait of the Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand]() - [Sappho at Leucate]() - [The Battle of Abukir]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()