Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)
ca. 1804
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88 7/8 x 64 7/8 in. (225.7 x 164.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Wrightsman Fund, 2002
Accession Number
2002.31
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the opulent world of Napoleonic France with Baron François Gérard's *Madame Charles Maurice de Talley Périgord (1761–1835)*, a masterful oil-on-canvas portrait from around 1804. Measuring nearly 7 by 5 feet, this grand-scale work captures the elegance of Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord, wife of the influential diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a key figure in French politics during the Revolution, Empire, and Restoration eras. Gérard, a leading neoclassical portraitist and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, was favored by Napoleon for his ability to convey imperial splendor...