Gabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertugadin, decorated with three-string pearl necklace. She holds a fan and mirror. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.

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