"What do you choose to keep?" Keith Christiansen on François Gérard's "Portrait of Talleyrand"

Baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770--1837 Paris). "Portrait of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754--1838), Prince de Bénévent," 1808. Oil on canvas; 83 7/8 x 57 7/8 in. (213 x 147 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2012 (2012.348)

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