Pierre-Paul Prud'Hon
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Prince de Bénévent
1817215.9 x 141.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, lower left, on plinth: P.P. Prud'hon pinxit.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in memory of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1994
Literature
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 74
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 2
Provenance
the sitter, until d. 1838
?his nephew, Edmond, 2nd duc de Talleyrand Périgord, from 1838
Napoléon-Louis, 3rd duc Talleyrand Périgord, château de Valençay, until d. 1898
his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 29 May – 1 June 1899, nr. 21, to Castellane
his daughter, comtesse Jean de Castellane, 1899–d. 1948
by family descent (1948–91)
with A. Moatti and Didier Aaron, Paris and New York, 1991–94, sold to MMA
Other works by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
Innocence Choosing Love over Wealth
1804
1804
The Abduction of Psyche
David Johnston
1808
1808
The Union of Love and Friendship
c. 1793
c. 1793
Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime
1808
1808