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Tab. XI. Les Corsets.

185. Italian Busto, iron corset. Framework lined with velvet. Venetian. Photographic document.

186. Duchess corset body, front, with shoulder straps and basques, laced in front. (Encyclopédie; le tailleur de corps.)

187, 188, 191. French corset, open front. Boned with solid bones and transverse dressage bones, shoulder straps and basques. 187: half-whale; 188: solid ribs; 191: whale busk, used in pairs; slipped into the front, on each side, with a loop for removal. (Encyclopédie.)

190. Goldsmith's breastplate adorned with pearls and jewels, early 16th century. Ms. 7232, Bibl. nat.

192. Figure after Jost Amman, wearing a hooked corset, the point of which pointed forwards, 16th century.

193 & 194. Figures after César Vecellio, late 16th century; Venetians mounted on skates (Tab. X: 156, 157, 162, 163). Busto corset, advances while being prolonged, and in such a way as to form the false belly. (See about these ladies pl. 289.)

195. Lady of the Netherlands, after Van Dyck; Medici bodice.

196 & 197. Figures by Michel Wolgemut in the Chronicle of Nuremberg, 1493, showing the use of the corset by the curve of the body.

198. Marie d'Anjou, wife of Charles VII, receiving in 1455 the homage of a book, which is another example, going back earlier, of the obvious use of the corset walking with the arch of the loins. From the Twelve Perilz of Hell, Ms. de la Bibl. of the Arsenal.

199. Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Marie-Antoinette, after Moreau the Younger.

200. Marriage of Joyeuse, Marguerite de Vaudemont, 1581. Louvre.

201. Lady, late 17th century, after Bonnard.

202. Figure from La Mode illustrée, No. 9, 27 February 1887.

203. Cuirass-corset, with steel blades.