French school, c. 1870. Marguerite Yvelin de Béville (1840-1909), Baroness de Talleyrand-Périgord Oil on canvas 65.1 x 54.1 cm Molded and gilded frame (accidents) with label identifying the model. Daughter of Major General Louis Gaspard Gustave Adolphe de Béville, a polytechnicien, and Jeanne Louise Marie Tiollier, she married Louis-Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1826-1872) on March 10, 1868, and the couple had two daughters: Charlotte Marie Thérèse de Talleyrand-Périgord (1869-1940) and Charlotte Louise Marie Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord (1873-1972).

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