Masquerade ball, Bal d'Opera, circa 1800. Fashionable people in costume as hussars, peasants, clowns, harlequins and Turks, some wearing masks. Illustration by Jean-Francois Bosio, chromolithograph by Gaulard from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.
Masquerade ball, Bal d'Opera, circa 1800. Fashionable people in costume as hussars, peasants, clowns, harlequins and Turks, some wearing masks. Illustration by Jean-Francois Bosio, chromolithograph by Gaulard from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.