3432871 Portrait of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, 1808 (oil on canvas) by Gerard, Francois Pascal Simon, Baron (1770-1837); 213x147 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Perigord (1754??838) French Prince de Benevento, bishop, politician and diplomat, whose career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, and Louis-Philippe. The Legion d???onneur is embroidered on Talleyrand\'s coat and he wears the sash of the Grand Cordon of the order, awarded in 1805. He also wears the emblem of the Golden Fleece, presented to him at the Congress of Vienna, and added to the picture by Gerard in or after 1815. ); French, out of copyright.