Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in ball gown, Directoire era, 1799. She wears her hair in a classical Greek style, low-cut muslin dress with gold embroidery and roses on the diagonal. Costume de Bal 1799. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomte’s Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.

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