Caption:
Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, Duke of Epernon, 15541642. Member of King Henry III's most intimate circle of favourites, Les Mignons. Le Duc d'Epernon, 1580. 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.