Ladies in waiting - Tim Walker for W Magazine

 

Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s The Empress Eugénie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting, 1855.

 

Christopher Steele’s Polly Patterson, circa 1765

 

François-Hubert Drouais’s Madame de Pompadour at Her Tambour Frame, 1763–64

                 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Portrait of Baroness James de Rothschild, 1848