Merveilleuse in lace veil and tunic dress. This early Empire style was named after the Vestal Virgins. Voile et Tunique à la Vestale. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Dames et des Modes, Magazine of Women and Fashion, Paris, An 11, November, 1802. Illustrations by Carle Vernet, Jean-Francois Bosio, Dominique Bosio and Philibert Louis Debucourt, engraved by Pierre-Charles Baquoy.

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