Madame Grand (Catherine Noele Worlee, later Madame Talleyrand-Perigord)

Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun (1755-1842)

French, painted 1783

 

The sitter was born in India and married George Grand, an Englishman in the colonial civil service. After amorous adventures in Calcutta and London, she settled in Paris in 1783, the year this portrait was painted. She was divorced and in 1802 married the diplomat Talleyrand.

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