Baroness Mathilde von Jordan (12 April 1812,

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– 1886,

) was a German noblewoman who appeared in the

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gathered by

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in 1837.

Life

Mathilde was born in

in 1817. She was the only daughter of Baron Wilhelm von Jordan, royal chamberlain and lieutenant general, and Violanda, née Countess von und zu Sandizell. Mathilde was a dame of honor of the royal

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. In 1843 she married Count

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(1809–1886). Beust was Foreign Minister of the

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from 1849 to 1866. From 1866 to 1871 he was Foreign Minister of

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, and at one time also

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n Prime Minister. He received the title of hereditary Austrian count in 1868. Mathilde and her husband had three sons and a daughter. Countess Beust died in 1886.

Portrait

In 1837, King

commissioned the court painter

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to paint her for his

collection in

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. In the portrait, detail-enhancement shows the sides of her head are adorned with ribbon-work rather than curls; the later 1830s was an era of straight coiffures.http://www.gogmsite.net/empire-napoleonic-and-roman/subalbum-schonheitengalleri/, http://www.gogmsite.net/empire-napoleonic-and-roman/subalbum-schonheitengalleri/1837-freiin-mathilde-jordan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Mathilde 1812 births 1886 deaths People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Bavarian nobility People from Regensburg Gallery of Beauties