Mlle. Clotilde in a daring Grecian ballet costume, 1798. Clotilde Mafleurai, 1776-1826, star dancer with the Ballet de Paris at the Theatre de l'Opera. She wears a Greek hairstyle and costume with high waist, decorated with flowers, and baring one breast and one knee. 18 July 1798. Clotilde dans le Ballet de Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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