ca. 1744 Philippine Charlotte von Preußen by Antoine Pesne and by ? after Antoine Pesne

Left image from www.bildindex.de; right image, a derivative, from Wikimedia. A very small color version of the left image is here  She actually wore a red dress.

Philippine Charlotte appears to be wearing a wig over her own hair, vividly depicted in the derivative portrait. These images and the last image show the style that characterized most of the 1700s took root in German locations in the 1730s - 1740s.

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