'Deux Lorettes', mid-late 19th century, (1943). Creator: Constantin Guys.

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'Deux Lorettes', mid-late 19th century, (1943). 'Lorette' was a term for a female sex worker. The name derives from the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette area of Paris where many lorettes lived and worked. Drawing in the Louvre Museum, Paris. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]

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