Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835)

Madame Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1761–1835) by baron François Gérard

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

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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...

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