Joséphine de Beauharnais. Pastel By Pierre Prud’hon

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Joséphine de Beauharnais. Pastel By Pierre Prud’hon

Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763 – 1814. Pastel By Pierre Prud’hon.

Painting of the young Joséphine de Beauharnais (about 1790) before she became the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Source: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; (1896) by William Milligan Sloane.

Illustration, damasks, ornament

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