Caption:
Ceremonial costume of a Minister under the French Consulate, 1799-1804. In bicorne with tricolor cockade, silver embroidered coat, red sash belt, blue breeches, calf-length boots. Costume des Ministres. Epoque du Consulat. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomtes Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.