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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, 1817

Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in memory of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1994 (1994.190)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Talleyrand, a brilliant political figure who served under every French ruler from Louis XVI to Louis-Philippe, commissioned this portrait from Prud'hon in 1817. For Napoléon Prud'hon had already painted two full-length portraits of Talleyrand: one in 1806 for the Château de Compiègne (Château de Valençay, Indre) and another in 1807 (Musée Carnavalet, Paris). The pose for this portrait was based on the 1807 painting 

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