She was a society superstar in Second Empire Paris. Her French Wikipedia article is here.
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1556 Catherine de Medici possibly by Agnolo Bronzino
1859 Victoria, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland in the Robes of State by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Royal Collection)
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