Later drawings continue a fascination with prerevolutionary France. Eugène Louis Lami's 1853 watercolour, A Supper During The Regence, alternatively titled The Prodigal Son or, more scintillatingly, The Orgy, shows a debauched party held by Philippe, the Duke of Orléans, at Versailles. One drunken young woman is shown tumbling to the floor, another is shown dressed like a bacchante, in leopard skin overskirt with grapes in her hair. But though it might look like Lami is wagging a moralising finger, the details with which this scene is lovingly imagined reveal a certain nostalgia for those morally less austere times.
