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Art Credits
Grateful acknowledgment is given to the following sources for the art used throughout this book: page iii, Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; page xiv, Art Resource, NY; page 18, ©Harlingue-Viollet; page 47, ©Harlingue-Viollet; page 52, Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY; page 75, ©Harlingue-Viollet; page 78, ©Collection Viollet; page 90, ©Collection Viollet; page 94, Portrait of a Lady (Veronica Franco[?]), by Follower of Jacopo Tintoretto, 16th Century, oil on canvas, 61.5 cm x 47.2 cm, Worcester Art Museum, Austin S. and Sarah C. Garver Fund, photograph ©Worcester Art Museum; page 128, Musée de Bruxelles/©LL-Viollet; page 132, The Birchard Collection; page 153, Giraudon/Art Resource, NY; page 158, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, 1758, by Francois Boucher, oil on canvas, 82.2 x 64.9 cm, courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Charles E. Dunlap, Photographic Services, ©President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard University; page 184, MacBride Museum Collection, Whitehorse, Yukon; page 188, Brown Brothers; page 227, Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY; page 230, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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Griffin, Susan.
The book of the courtesans: a catalogue of their virtues/Susan Griffin.—1st ed.
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1. Courtesans—History. 2. Courtesans—Biography.
3. Mistresses—History. 4. Mistresses—Biography. I. Title.
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