Ninon de l'Enclos, French author, courtesan

Ninon de l'Enclos, French author, courtesan and salon hostess, 1615-1705. She wears her hair loose in ringlets, a low-cut mantua dress with bodice and skirt in green velvet decorated with bows, and a scarlet petticoat with gold ines. After a miniature on vellum in the editor's collection. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827

Bodice Bows Celebres Courtesan Femmes Francaise Galerie Gatine Hostess Lante Low-cut Mantua Ninon Petticoat Ribbons Ringlets Salon

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