Mathilde von Jordan

Baroness Mathilde von Jordan (12 April 1812, Regensburg – 1886, Regensburg) was a German noblewoman who appeared in the Gallery of Beauties gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria[1] in 1837.

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 Order of Theresa.

[3] In 1837, King Ludwig I of Bavaria commissioned the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler to paint her for his Gallery of Beauties collection in Nymphenburg Palace, Munich.

[4] 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.