Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in low-cut dress, 1801. She wears a classical hairdress, large necklace with heart, shawl, and bosom-revealing open dress tied with bows. She holds a fan and bouquet of flowers. Coeffure Antique. Robe ouverte. 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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