Gabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertugadin, decorated with three-string pearl necklace. She holds a fan and mirror. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.
Gabrielle d'Estrees, Marchioness of Monceaux, mistress of King Henry IV of France, 1571-1599. She wears her blonde hair tied in a pearl lattice, three-tier lace ruff collar, dress with slashed sleeves and corset, French clamshell farthingale or vertugadin, decorated with three-string pearl necklace. She holds a fan and mirror. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.