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11-29-2012, 07:31 PM
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 ★The Queen★ Poster Rank:67 Female Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 23,498
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Unknown Death Mask of Girl From 1880s
In the late 1880s, the body of a 16-year-old girl was pulled from the Seine. She was apparently a suicide, as her body showed no marks of violence, but her beauty and her enigmatic smile led a Paris pathologist to order a plaster death mask of her face. Though the girl’s identity remains a mystery, her face, it’s said, has become, “the most kissed face of all time.” *If they don't know who she is, how do they know her age?*  · |
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11-29-2012, 07:34 PM
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Re: Unknown Death Mask of Girl From 1880s
Wow, she looks so serene. Hard to believe it's a death mask!
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11-29-2012, 09:42 PM
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Re: Unknown Death Mask of Girl From 1880s
I wonder if he moved her lips to smile before doing the death mask?
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11-30-2012, 05:16 AM
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Re: Unknown Death Mask of Girl From 1880s
Kind of eerie maybe but at the same time it's hauntingly beautiful. Awesome mask and awesome image  |
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11-30-2012, 05:48 AM
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Re: Unknown Death Mask of Girl From 1880s
Albert Rudomine – La Vierge inconnue du canal de l’Ourcq (1927) Gelatin silver print , 49 x 77 cm Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la photographie http://expositions.bnf.fr/portraits/grand/070.htm http://le000310.host.inode.at/presse...=7&id=1&sub=50 http://lapetitemelancolie.wordpress....ine-1892-1975/ |
