Caption:
Mademoiselle Louise de la Valliere (1644-1710), mistress to King Louis XIV, 1661. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet after a miniature enamel by Jean Petitot (1606-1691) from the Pauquet Brothers' "Modes et Costumes Historiques" (Historical Fashions and Costumes), Paris, 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century, specializing in illustrated books on costume, birds, butterflies, anatomy and natural history.