427px-Madame_de_Staël

portrait of de Staël

François Pascal Simon Gérard, Portrait of Madame de Staël (c. 1810), Evert A. Duyckinick, Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America (New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madame_de_Sta%C3%ABl.jpg