Les Incroyables 1796 Jean Louis Marais after Carle Vernet, 1701 - 1801 colored stipple engraving 1796 French Paris

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'Les Incroyables', a dotted engraving by Jean Louis Darcis Carle Vernet from 1796, were wealthy young men after the French Revolution with exaggerated dress luxurious excesses of the old regime denounced. A true 'incroyable' wore long straggly hair, gold earrings, wide lapels, a high collar with a high knotted neckerchief, shoes with pointed noses and a gnarled cane.

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Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
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