Focus on Mademoiselle V. in the Costume of an Espada and discuss the Modern scholarship.
In the 1980s, The Metropolitan Museum of Art conducted research on the painting using X-radiography. The X-radiograph showed a female nude figure beneath the composition of Meurent. This female nude was upside down and shows great similarity to the one of the nude females in François Boucher's Diane sortant du bain.
François Boucher's François Boucher Metropolitan Museum of Art