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Soldat de la ligne by Raimund von Stillfried, The Met’s Photography Department

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/288012

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The Lady with the Veil (the Artist’s Wife) by Alexander Roslin, 1768, Nationalmuseum, SWE

I inventarieböckerna på Österby bruk kallades den här målningen Porträtt av enögt fruntimmer. Idag finns den på Nationalmuseum där den fått titeln Damen med slöjan. Damen ifråga är konstnären Alexander Roslins fru Suzanne, född Giroust. Det var inte på grund av att det var något fel på hennes öga som Roslin målade henne med en slöja som döljer halva ansiktet. Hon är klädd à la Bolognaise - en dräkt som kvinnorna i Bologna, Italien, bar. Svensken Alexander Roslin var en av 1700-talets mest anlitade porträttmålare. Han hade en internationell karriär med uppdrag i en rad europeiska länder. 1752 bosatte han sig i Paris där han öppnade en ateljé. Flera av hans välbeställda kunder reste till Paris enbart för att bli målades av Roslin “le Suédois”. Särskilt uppskattad blev han för sin skicklighet att återge de sinnliga kvaliteterna hos en len pudrad hy, mjuk sammet eller frasande siden. Men han kritiserades också för att vara ytlig. I Paris träffade Roslin pastellmålaren Suzanne Giroust. Trots att hon i tät följd födde fem barn i början av äktenskapet fortsatte hon sin konstnärliga yrkesbana. Hon var en av få kvinnor som på sin tid valdes in i den franska konstakademin och hon ställde ut på den prestigefyllda Salongen. 38 år gammal dog Suzanne i bröstcancer. Roslin målade genom åren fem olika porträtt av sin vackra hustru alla lika innerligt kärleksfulla.   

http://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=21152

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A cat dressed in a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt takes part in a parade in Kiev on May 28, 2016. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)

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A performance I saw on social media showing Native Hoop Dance

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George Harrison, 1970

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It's believed King Tut, who died around the age of 18, had buck teeth, a club foot, and wide hips. This is a result of incest, considering his parents were brother and sister.

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1973

A Viet Cong guerrilla stands guard in the Mekong Delta. "You could find women like her almost everywhere during the war," said the photographer. "She was only 24 years old but had been widowed twice. Both her husbands were soldiers. I saw her as the embodiment of the ideal guerrilla woman, who'd made great sacrifices for her country."

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Native American Mothers.

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Princess Margaret and her sister Queen Elizabeth ii

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Jolie Jones and Keith Richards ❤️

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 Meryl Streep - freshman yearbook photo at Bernards High School in Berdardsville NJ, 1964

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Kathleen Cleaver was the first female member of the Black Panther Party's decision making body. Kathleen was the wife of Eldridge Cleaver and she currently serves as a Professor of Law and Senior Lecturer at Emory University.

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 Rhineland Bastard was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-German children of mixed German and African parentage, who were fathered by Africans serving as French colonial troops occupying the Rhineland after World War I. Under Nazism's racial theories, these children were considered inferior to "pure Aryans" and consigned to compulsory sterilization.

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Fashion at Longchamp Racing, Paris 1908

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A giant sequoia log, Sequoia National Park, California c. 1791 

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Tattooed Lady, photographed for National Geographic, 1931

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Prince by photographer Robert Whitman (1977)

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