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L'Inconnue de la Seine

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Unknown Woman of the Seine or L’Inconnue de la Seine

In the later part of the erstwhile 19th century and sometimes in the early 20th century, a piece of art that garnered extreme popularity in most of the modish and artistic French homes was the absolutely ominous death mask of L’Inconnue de la Seine. She was an anonymous young lady (somewhere around the age of sixteen) whose visage propelled the creation of a multitude of diverse literary and artworks. The mask is widely recognized as “La Belle Italienne” in the United States.

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l'inconnue de la seine

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Beautiful Da Vinci Museo: Photo

“L’Inconnue de la Seine (‘the unknown woman of the Seine’) was an unidentified 16-year-old girl whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists’ homes after 1900… According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River…[in the] late 1880s. The body showed no signs of violence, and suicide was suspected. A pathologist at the Paris morgue was so taken by her beauty that he had a molder make a plaster cast death mask of her face.”

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Turns Out, CPR Doll’s Face Is A Copy Of 19th Century Drowned Woman’s Face

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