Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry

Catherine-Henriette de Balzac d'Etragues, Marquise de Verneuil, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1579-1633. She wears her hair tied up with a ribbon of roses, a velvet dress with corset and French vertugadin or clamshell farthingale, slashed sleeves, high lace collar, skirts decorated with gold bands. After a miniature in oils in the editor's collection

Balzac Bands Celebres Clamshell Corset Farthingale Femmes Francaise Galerie Gatine Lante Marquise Skirts Slashed Verneuil Vertugadin

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