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Posing as a Dying
Soldier Albumen silver print from collodion glass negative, 17.9 x 24.2 cm, by Adrien Constant de Rebecque, c. 1863 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Likely a study for a painting, a man lies in the classical pose of a dying soldier, wearing a chainmail tunic, with his head resting on a velvet cushion. The pose is highly theatrical, echoing the long tradition of academic studies in which artists staged models in classical attitudes of death, martyrdom, or heroic defeat. |
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