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Empress Eugénie's Poodle Salted paper print from collodion glass negative, 20.7 x 20.8 cm, by André-Adolphe Disdéri, 1850s The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| The Empress' poodle poses with composed grandeur atop a floral stool, capturing the fanciful whimsy of Second Empire portraiture. Its upright stance and delicately placed paws suggest a creature more suited to courtly ritual than to ordinary canine play. |
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