Nobel woman in rococo gown. Reign Louis XV, 1740.

12/15/13
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Mode de Paris, Règne de Louis XV. d’après Nicolas Lancret 1740.

Nobel woman in rococo gown. Reign of Louis XV, 1740.

Mode de Paris, Règne de Louis XV. d’après Nicolas Lancret 1740.

Source: “Modes et Costumes Historiques“. Drawing by Xavier Willemin. Edited and steel engraving by Hippolyte Louis Emile and Polidor Jean Charles Pauquet. Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin London, 1864.

Illustration, damasks, ornament

 

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