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| Mefody Lukyanov, by Konstantin Somov, 1918. |
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| (Lukyanov was the artist's lover from 1910 to 1932.) |
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| Bei der Toilette, by Johann Baptist Reiter, 1842. |
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| Doctor Alphonse Leroy, by Jacques-Louis David, 1783. |
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| The comtesse du Barry with her page Zamor, by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty, circa 1774. |
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| Queen Victoria, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1843. |
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| Jean Harlow, publicity for Dinner at Eight, 1933. |
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| Nathaniel Hurd, by John Singleton Copley, 1765-66. |
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| "Portrait of a Lady traditionally identified as Anne de La Grange-Trianon, circle of François-Hubert Drouais", first half of the 18th century. |
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| Pierre-Jacques-Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt, by François-André Vincent, 1774. |
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| Portrait of a lady, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, circa 1850s. |
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| "Dr. Pozzi at home" (Samuel-Jean Pozzi), by John Singer Sargent, 1881. |
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| Betrachtung im Negligée, by Johann Baptist Reiter, 1847. |
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| Self-Portrait, by Johann Heinrich Roos, 1682. |
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| Young woman, by Anna Dorothea Therbusch, circa 1770s. |
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| Madame Souty reclinada en un sofá, by Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta, 1921. |
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| Johann Joachim Winckelmann, by Anton von Maron, 1768. |
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| Lacing the Corset, by Constantinus Fidelio Coene, circa 1830s. |
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| Sig Ulmanis, by Kris Studios, circa late 1950s. |
I hope déshabillée means casually dressed without corsets, rather than naked. Thus Portrait of a lady, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (c1850) and Betrachtung im Negligée, by Johann Baptist Reiter (1847) are still in good taste and not tacky.
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