A photographic portrait of Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, by Pierre-Louis Pierson (1895).1 The Countess, who became a mistress of Napoleon III of France, was widely regarded as one of the demimonde (sense 1).
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From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, USA. ↩