Woman of Guéméné, near Pontivy, Brittany. Woman in Sunday best holding a rosary near a church. In coiffe headdress with lace tails, bodice decorated with ribbons and pearls, banded skirts and blue apron. Femme de Guéméné, environs de Pontivy, Morbihan. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Celestin Deshayes from Musée Cosmopolite, Musée de Costumes, Cosmopolitan Museum, published by ancienne maison Aubert, Paris, 1850.

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