François Gérard

Literature

Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 75
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 3

Provenance

presumably the sitter's husband, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, prince de Bénévent, until d. 1838
his niece, Georgine de Talleyrand Périgord, duchesse d'Esclignac, 1838–d. 1868
her daughter, Georgine de Preissac d'Esclignac, marquise de Persan, 1868–d. 1911
Boson Doublet, marquis de Persan, 1911–d. 1928
Marguerite Doublet de Persan, baronne Maurice Eschasseriaux, from 1928
her son, baron Jacques Eschasseriaux
his son, baron Philippe Eschasseriaux, château de Maureilhan, near Béziers, until 2002
sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 January 2002, nr. 76, to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2002.31

Other works by François Gérard

Carolina Ferdinanda Louisa of Sicily (1798-1870). Wife of Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berry, in the Park of Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne (near Paris)
1820 - 1837

Ossian on the banks of the Lora summons the spirits with the sound of the harp
c. 1815-20

Saint Teresa
1828

Julie Bonaparte, Queen of Naples, with her Daughters Zénaïde and Charlotte

Jean Lannes, Duc de Montebello, Maréchal d'Empire
1809-10