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Kersti Malvre – Countess di Castiglione

Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione (1837-1899), was an Italian courtesan and secret agent who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was a significant figure in the early history of photography as a collaborator of photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson. She commissioned hundreds of portraits of herself, many of them intricately hand-painted and went bankrupt in the process.

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