French noblewoman, 15th century. In sugarloaf (pain de sucre) or hennin headdress with long veil, bodice in black velvet over gold fabric, dress with long train in blue velvet decorated with gold and lined with crimson velvet. Maid in black bonnet, yellow robe and green petticoat. From a miniature in the manuscript Echecs amoureux in the Bibliotheque royale de Paris. Noble Francaise, XVe siecle. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from Jacques Joseph van Beveren’s Costume du Moyen Age, Medieval Costume, Librairie Historique-Artistique, Brussels, 1847.

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