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Figure 73: Head of Niobe

Figure 73: Head of Niobe

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

1854–1856

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image (Oval): 28.6 × 20.4 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.) Sheet: 29.2 × 21.5 cm (11 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.) Mount: 40.1 × 28.3 cm (15 13/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Figure 73: Head of Niobe by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne — VisualArtsDB