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Meet Agnès Sorel, the 15th-Century French Beauty Immortalized as Madonna

Sorel was France’s first official royal lover.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-agnes-sorel-fouquet-madonna-2600048

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Sorel

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Agnes Sorel from Friedrich Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orléans, engraved as a steel engraving by Albrecht Fürchtegott Schultheiss after a drawing by Friedrich Pecht; the captioned sheet measures approx. 8 × 11.6 cm. It belongs to a series, possibly as an early collector's picture, which became known as the Schiller Gallery by Friedrich Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg.

The image is a historical engraving depicting a woman dressed in an elegant medieval-style gown with a fitted bodice and wide skirt.

She wears a delicate, translucent veil over her head, draping down her back. The woman is holding an ornate jewelry box, which is open, revealing a string of pearls spilling out.

Her facial expression appears contemplative as she gazes downward at the contents of the box.

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