1780 Leonor de Almeida Portugal, Marquesa de Alorna by Pitschmann first name unknown (private collection)

Leonor de Almeida was an accomplished poet warranting a long Portuguese Wikipedia article. Wikimedia has a self-portrait (not reproduced here).

Leonor de Almeida combines puffed sleeves in the early 1600s style with an up-to-date square neckline and bouffant coiffure in this 1780 Pitschmann.

Keywords:  1780, Pitschmann, Marquesa, Portuguese, bouffant coiffure, hair jewelry, veil, square neckline, modesty piece, bertha, puffed slashed sleeves, revers, stomacher


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