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1788

Portrait of a Young Woman

Giuseppe Cades

Italian (active Rome), 1750 - 1799

The unusual hairstyle seen here-short, frizzed, and brushed up in front, with long, loose curls in back-was in vogue during the late 1780s and was called à la hérisson, or "hedgehog fashion."

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