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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne|Adrien Tournachon

Figure 73: Head of Niobe

1854–56, printed 1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
28.6 × 20.4 cm (11.3 × 8 in)

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