Found: the earliest surviving formal portrait of the celebrated man/woman/spy Chevalier d’Eon whose first 49 years of life were spent as a man, and last 33 as a woman. Indeed, Chevalier’s gender was so much in question that it took a medical inquest upon death to discover it.
(Source: artdaily.com)
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