2-650-030 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Poppee - Femme De Neron', 1403, (1939). Poppaea Sabina (AD 30 - AD 65) known as Poppaea Sabina the Younger (to differentiate her from her mother) and, after AD 63, as Poppaea Augusta Sabina was a Roman Empress as the second wife of the Emperor Nero. The illustration is part of the manuscript De Claris mulieribus, traduction anonyme en francais (Livre des femmes nobles et renommees) by Giovanni Boccaccio, housed in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. From Verve - Nos. 5-6, July-October 1939. [Verve, France, 1939]