Euriant of Savoy, mistress of the Count of Nevers. The story of the beauty Euriant and Gerard de Nevers was related in La Roman de la violette by the poet Gerbert de Montreuil. She wears a high hennin with veil, and ermine-trimmed crimson robe. After a miniature in Roger Gaignieres' portfolio. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.

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