Josephine Grassini or Giuseppina Grassini, Italian dramatic contralto opera singer, 1773-1850. Famous for her affairs with Napoleon and Duke of Wellington. In costume for the role of Zaira in Peter Winter's opera. Woodcut by Huyot after a portrait by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun from Paul Lacroix's Directoire, Consulat et Empire, (Directory, Consulate and Empire), Paris, 1884.

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