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Jean Jacques Caffiéri
Wearing a powdered wig, the celebrated sculptor Caffiéri is portrayed as a gentleman, with a tricorne under his arm and a dress sword at his side, as if ready to visit Versailles. Wertmüller depicted with admirable realism the luxuriant red velvet of the sitter’s habit à la française, lined with lustrous, slightly puckering white satin. Caffiéri’s matching waistcoat, trimmed with gold braid and embroidery, and the lace cuffs of his shirt and jabot (the ruffle at his neck) are quintessential examples of the costly fabrics and embellishment used for eighteenth-century French menswear.
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