Evening drawing school, Boston - the unknown woman of the Seine - 1892

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpna3nxRU5_cC_PuZHeFypO0zZ1reTwAv7MG0EqvjAIbVkI8YrTiOkqk4-zja_PrX1dykDgPFeBSMUgh9FboEmm50Q035HzZhOJtiji7OoYnmnJH2whzg33BsZACJfK5wXIyADAQddoZo/s1600/Evening+drawing+school%252C+Boston%252C+1892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbpna3nxRU5_cC_PuZHeFypO0zZ1reTwAv7MG0EqvjAIbVkI8YrTiOkqk4-zja_PrX1dykDgPFeBSMUgh9FboEmm50Q035HzZhOJtiji7OoYnmnJH2whzg33BsZACJfK5wXIyADAQddoZo/s1600/Evening+drawing+school%252C+Boston%252C+1892.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">L'Inconnue de la Seine (French for "the unknown woman of the Seine") was an unidentified </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">young woman whose putative death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists' </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">homes after 1900. Her visage inspired numerous literary works. In the United States, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the mask is also known as "La Belle Italienne".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxF3F5ceVYV1I1TZEG8C5Yr9gF0HfoDbZHJ82tPCSjnldd2epyNgehX3kiHzMQyzixg2d8_41RwNP29fm9MfC2xSwPwyOhn6ZxzBXPOJVCsXVoEdChaLV9BywUbp75-IZsTxrt-eXJ4QM/s1600/the+unknown+woman+of+the+Seine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxF3F5ceVYV1I1TZEG8C5Yr9gF0HfoDbZHJ82tPCSjnldd2epyNgehX3kiHzMQyzixg2d8_41RwNP29fm9MfC2xSwPwyOhn6ZxzBXPOJVCsXVoEdChaLV9BywUbp75-IZsTxrt-eXJ4QM/s1600/the+unknown+woman+of+the+Seine.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKCkBFwB_1o-LFfjrQ-y5q2FCQTcwWa7lHFzaXWLlZ9R2K5ZpphOQr3cgm2PH4zgseIwYDKuXVi8X8FARbs4UxcINlgpUIB2rsKN3aE4_0cNqL2EuA5YUaua68ukuWGSqK_7ExYe9py28/s1600/the+unknown+woman+of+the+Seine+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcKCkBFwB_1o-LFfjrQ-y5q2FCQTcwWa7lHFzaXWLlZ9R2K5ZpphOQr3cgm2PH4zgseIwYDKuXVi8X8FARbs4UxcINlgpUIB2rsKN3aE4_0cNqL2EuA5YUaua68ukuWGSqK_7ExYe9py28/s1600/the+unknown+woman+of+the+Seine+2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</a> - <a href="http://www.hlr.nu/linconnue-de-la-seine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</a> - <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/473300242059258620/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</a>

Evening drawing school, Boston - the unknown woman of the Seine - 1892

L'Inconnue de la Seine (French for "the unknown woman of the Seine") was an unidentified  young woman whose putative death mas...

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