mesbeauxarts:

Robert Lefevre. Portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese. 1809.

Oil on canvas.

Château de Malmaison. Rueil-Malmaison, France.

(via centuriespast)

Mrs. Andrew Ellicott by Jacob Eichholtz, 1809.  Via the New York Historical Society. 

What a charming little cap!  The blue ribbon is making me swoony…

carolathhabsburg:

jaded-mandarin:

1809 Pauline by Robert Lefèvre (Musee Nationale du Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison France)

Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon´s favorite sister. She was a truly man eater!!!

That is some major head bling!

Detail, Ackermann’s Repository, 1809