Not sure, although a decade or so later revealing dresses were apparently all the go in Paris. Josephine de Beauharnais, who became Napoleon Bonaparte's wife, was reputed to have held such parties as a way of attracting attention in her plan to go higher in society. Most of the cheerfully bare-breasted women in paintings I feel are so because their symbolic of something or other - or else the artist just liked to paint the unadorned female form!
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 3:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: PESO - Busted Couple From: "John Coyle" > I think it is the bust of Chretien Guillaume de Lamoignon de > Malesherbes, 1785 (marble), who was a French statesman, minister and > counsel for the defence of Louis XVI at this trial during the French > Revolution; guillotined on the 23rd April, 1794. Haven't been able to > ID the woman yet, although the exposed breast suggest a courtesan, > such as du Barry or de Pompadour. I thought a bare breast was just the French style from that period? http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1259009.1360352487!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivati ves/landscape_635/louvre9n-1-web.jpg OR http://tinyurl.com/czwn5h4 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
