Louis XVI. Monarque juste et bienfaisant: vêtu d’un manteau royal.

9/17/13
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King Louis XVI.

Louis XVI Monarque juste et bienfaisant, 1780.

Monarque juste et bienfaisant: vêtu d’un manteau royal de velours violet semé de fleurs de lys d’or.

Louis XVI in 1780. Righteous and beneficent monarch: dressed in a royal purple velvet coat with golden fleurs-de-lis.

Collection d’habillements modernes et galants avec les habillements des princes et seigneurs. Paris 1780. Dessiné par Claude-Louis Desrais; Gravé par Martial Deny; Carl de Vinck. Éditeur et marchand, André Basset.

Illustration Galan, middle ages, b/w,

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