La Belle Ferronniere, rumored mistress of King Francis I of France, c. 1500-1530. Wife of an ironworker or daughter of a bourgeois named Ferron. In gown with slashed sleeves, embroidered bodice, gold necklace. Laferonniere maitresse de Francois I. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomte’s Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.

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