Fashionable woman dancing in a ball gown, 1801. She wears a classical hairstyle, long necklace with enamel portrait miniatures, low-cut dress and holds up her skirts while skipping in a folk dance or waltz. Costume de Bal. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1801. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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