Coryphees at a ball. Incroyables in jackets with outsize buttons and collars; long cravat; huge bicorn hat; and merveilleuses with decollete dresses and large lace collars. (Coryphees are ballet dancers of a rank between corps du ballet and soloist.) What to say about these breeches with a thousand folds and large jackets that fall with as little grace as from a coat rack? Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre; Paris; 1817.