File talk:Portrait of Auguste de Staël (1790–1827) by François Gérard.jpg

Renamed

Renamed per the below request on the Administrator's notice board -- Deadstar (msg) 09:13, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

An editor on English wikipedia claims that File:Mathieu de Montmorency - Young.jpg is actually Auguste de Staël, not Mathieu de Montmorency.

This appears to be a valid concern. This is identified as "Portrait of Mathieu de Montmorency (1767-1826)" by an unknown painter, and sourced to the dead link http://www.histoire-empire.org/persos/madame_de_stael.htm.

I found the original painting in "The Chateau of Coppet: Portrait Salon" http://www.swisscastles.ch/Vaud/Coppet/covisiteguidee6_e.html#cinq described as Madame de Staël`s child "Auguste de Staël ( 1790 – 1827) represented in front of the Castle of Coppet by François Gérard"

The official website of Coppet Castle describes the portraits in the portrait salon https://www.chateaudecoppet.com/le-salon-des-portraits. It mentions a portrait of Auguste de Stael (Auguste, oldest son of Madame Stael, portrait by Gerard [translated from French]). It also mentions a bust of her second husband, John Rocca, but makes no mention of a portrait of Mathieu de Montmorency.

If this is correct the image needs to be renamed, and much of the content needs to be redone. I can't move the image myself, and I didn't want to simply change the info and request a move without discussion. The uploader has not been active since 2012. Meters (talk) 06:09, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

The original page is available here via the Wayback Machine and does not mention the identity of the sitter. -- Deadstar (msg) 09:11, 25 March 2019 (UTC)