La gallerie des femmes fortes
La gallerie des femmes fortes is a 1665 Paris book by the poet Pierre Le Moyne, published by the Compagnie des marchands-libraires du palais, collecting engraved portraits of celebrated women of antiquity and history for a cultivated reading public. The pictures are small, framed copperplate engravings of standing women in period dress, each with a French caption and a classical setting behind them, with a single woodcut bouquet of flowers in a basket, offering a designer clear models for costume, drapery and bordered plate layouts.
