Madame de Pompadour

Elegant lady in a park by Ludovico Marchetti (10 May 1853, Rome - 20 June 1909, Paris)

Three types of bracelets or armbands from Tillya Tepe, an archaeological site in the northern Afghanistan; Bactrian civilization, dated to around the 1st century BC-1st century AD

Portrait of a woman, presumed to be Madame de Longueville, French School, 17th century

La Phrase changée. (Robe croisée.) from "Modes et Manières du Jour à Paris à la fin du 18e siècle et au commencement du 19e siècle” by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, c. 1800

Portrait of a lady, possibly Maria Vittoria Corsini, half-length, in a lace-trimmed dress and holding a miniature of her husband, Livio II Odescalchi by Pierre Hubert Subleyras, 1748

Donna Franca Florio, c. 1890

Portrait of a woman, attributed to the Maestro delle Storie del Pane (Italian artist, active late 1400s)

High-ranking Japanese lady's maid from the Momoyama period (1568-1600)

Marble bust of Marie d’Anjou, Queen of France, circa 1465

"At the Couturier, Hirsch & Cie Amsterdam" by Jan Sluijters , 1930-53

Lady Ottoline Morrell by Philip Edward Morrell, 1909

Portrait of Anne-Marie Zina Durand de Lironcourt by Pierre Subleyras, 1747

The “Rape of Lucretia” and “Funeral of Lucretia” by the Master of Marradi, late 15th to early 16th centuries

Recreation of Chinese women’s dress during the Han and Jin dynasties (206-420)

Portrait of a lady by Pietro Scoppetta (1863-1920)

Portrait of a lady in black  by Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, 1652

"C'est en vain", from "Modes et Manières du Jour à Paris à la fin du 18e siècle et au commencement du 19e siècle” by Philibert-Louis Debucourt, c. 1800