Costume for the shepherdess disguised as a shepherd involved in Cupid’s prank from the third scene of Jean-Georges Noverre’s 1778 Les petits riens, a ballet in one act and three scenes, with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that was uncredited at the premiere. The scene titled Espièglerie de l’Amour (‘the playfulness of Love’) depicts a woman disguised as a male shepherd who is presented to two shepherdesses. Both promptly fall in love with the supposed shepherd until, to disillusion them, the disguised shepherd reveals her breast. The joke lies in the mistaken identity and the amorous reactions of the two shepherdesses to Cupid’s trick.