A woman with auburn hair watches from a window in a trompe l’oeil painting on a façade in the centre of Aosta, Valle d’Aosta, Italy.
Aosta, Valle d’Aosta, Italy: a 17th century or 18th century beauty wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with puff sleeves pats a small lapdog with one hand while holding a mirror in the other, as she stares watchfully from a trompe l’oeil window painted on a wall in the historic centre of Aosta, the former ancient Roman and French city in the Aosta Valley, capital of the Valle d’Aosta region and gateway to the Italian Alps and Monte Bianco or Mont Blanc. Augusta Praetoria (modern Aosta) was a settlement of the Salassi conquered by Rome in 25 BC From 24 BC a colony of 3,000 Roman military veterans occupied the city of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum and it became the capital of the province Alpes Graies from 11 BC.
Size: 3872px × 2592px
Location: Aosta, Valle d’Aosta, Italy
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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