Madame de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France, 1640-1707. She wears her hair in ringlets, an unusual dress of lace on one side, and blue silk on the other, adorned with artificial foliage. After a miniature on ivory 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.
Madame de Montespan, mistress to King Louis XIV of France, 1640-1707. She wears her hair in ringlets, an unusual dress of lace on one side, and blue silk on the other, adorned with artificial foliage. After a miniature on ivory 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.