Joseph Franque

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma with the sleeping King of Rome, 1811, now in the Palace of Versailles

Elisa Bonaparte, 1812

Joseph Franque, also known as Joseph-Boniface Franque, the twin brother of Jean-Pierre Franque, was born at Le Buis, France, in 1774, and died in 1833. He also was a painter, and there is by him at Versailles a picture of the Empress Maria Louisa and the King of Rome.

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This article incorporates text from the article "FRANQUE, Joseph" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.