AGN48085 A Fencing Duel, probably depicting The Chevalier d\'Eon, dressed as a woman (w/c on paper) by Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827); Private Collection; (add.info.: Charles d\'Eon de Beaumont (1728-1810); French political adventurer; sent by Louis XV to Russia as a secret agent (1755); minister plenipotentiary in London (1762-63); Captain of Dragoons; celebrated swordsman; took part in fencing tournaments until seriously wounded in 1786; lived in London from 1785 and died there in poverty in 1810;); Photo 穢 Agnew\'s, London; English, out of copyright.