Costume of a courtesan, 18th century. Young woman with her hair in ringlets, low-cut gown with stomacher and full skirts decorated with lace and flowers. Famous mistresses such as demoiselle Grandville, Derville, Arnould, Raucourt. La Demoiselle. Handcoloured steel engraving by AB after an illustration by Tony Johannot, within a decorative cartouche by Anne Modave, from Augustin Challamel's Autrefois ou Le Bon Vieux Temps, Types de 18e Siecle, Challamel et Cie, 1842.

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