Par baron Gérard, en pied - royal and imperial ladies, Bonaparte and Bourbon

Hortense, wife of Louis Bonaparte and Queen of Holland, daughter of the Empress Joséphine, with her son Napoléon Louis, 1807.

Elisa Baciocchi Levoy née Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Princess of Lucca and Piombino, and her daughter Elisa, 1811.

The Empress Marie-Louise and the King of Rome, 1813.

Caroline Murat née Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, with her children, circa 1809-10.

Marie-Lætitia Buonaparte née Ramolino, "Madame Mère", mother of Napoléon I, two variations of the same portrait, circa 1802-4.

A third variation.

Marie-Julie, wife of Joseph Bonaparte and Queen of Spain, with her two daughters, Zénaïde and Charlotte, circa 1808-9.

Madame Bonaparte, later the Empress Joséphine, at Malmaison, 1801.

Queen Hortense with her son Napoléon Louis, 1807.

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The duchesse de Berry and her children, Louise-Marie-Thérèse d’Artois and Henri d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord, 1822.

The duchesse d'Orléans, later Queen Marie-Amélie, with her son Ferdinand, duc de Chartres, 1819.

Copy after Gérard by Louis Joseph Noyal.

Letizia Bonaparte dans son palais avec un domestique vêtu à l'orientale by Jacques Sablet

Letizia Buonaparte (August 24, 1750, Ajaccio – February 2, 1836, Rome), born Marie-Lætitia Ramolino, under the Empire called Madame Mère de l'Empereur or, simply, Madame Mère, was the mother of Napoléon I of France.  Married at thirteen, she bore that same number of children.  Of the eight who survived infancy, most would eventually wear a crown - at least temporarily - by the grace of their illustrious brother.  A famously tough old lady, she outlived the Empire, her son the emperor, and two of her daughters, living to the age of eighty-five.

Note the bust of her celebrated second son in the corner.

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Jacques-Henri Sablet, né Jacob Henry Sablet (28 January 1749, Morges – 4 April 1803, Paris), Swiss painter.  The son of a decorative artist and gilder, he moved to Paris in 1772 to further his education. After studying with Joseph-Marie Vien for three years, he accompanied his master to Italy; he would remain in Italy for the next two decades. He had had ambitions of being a history painter, but eventually turned to portraiture, genre, and landscape painting. His elder brother François was also an artist.