Noblewoman of Venice; after Abraham de Bruyn; 1581. Handcoloured steel engraving by Hippolyte Pauquet from the Pauquet Brothers' 鈥楳odes et Costumes Etrangers Anciens et Modernes' (Foreign Fashions and Costumes Ancient and Modern); Paris; 1865. Hippolyte (b. 1797) and Polydor Pauquet (b. 1799) ran a successful publishing house in Paris in the 19th century; specializing in illustrated books on costume; birds; butterflies; anatomy and natural history.