He was a transgender/non-binary french spy. In the end we figured out they were born male.
Chevalier Charles d’Éon de Beaumont.
Category: 18th Century
Costume and Fashion History during the 18th Century. Clothing of the Late Baroque, Rococo, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Rose Bertin Minister of Fashion at the court of Marie Antoinette. The French Revolution fashion period of Incroyables and Merveilleuses. The Georgians and Regency period.
Tartan of the Lord of the Isles at about 1750.
The tartan is represented only in the coat of the youth holding the golf-club, the trews being in red and white check; …
Shoe fashion of the 17th and 18th century.
Examples of combined shoes and clogs. Shoe fashion of the baroque and rococo period.
Terra di Lavoro. Two woolen carpets. Italy 18th c.
Two woolen carpets of the “Terra di Lavoro”
Salon de Musique of Queen Marie Antoinette
Salon de Musique of Queen Marie Antoinette, Palace of Fontainebleau, France.
Abruzzi. Italian peasant rugs.
Heavy woolen blanket. Abruzzi, Italy ca. 1770
Gilt State Bed of Queen Marie Antoinette. Palais de Fontainebleau.
French, Style Louis XVI. In the Chambre à Coucher, Palais de Fontainebleau, France. The Lyonnais Silk Hangings, designed by Philippe de Lassale.
Costume de Dame de Cour sous le regne de Louis XVI, 1779.
Court Lady under the reign of Louis XVI, for the balls of the Queen (Marie Antoinette) in 1774, 1775 and 1776 adopted for the role of the Marquise de Lenoncourt.
Roman Pope in chamber clothes 18th c.
Roman Pope in Chamber Clothes
Coiffure l’Ingénue, Coiffure en Hérisson a crochets 1785.
Cabinet des Modes, Ou Les Modes Nouvelles.