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Queer Turn of the Century

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Created by
Sean Joseph Kramer
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:46 p.m.

39 Items in this Learning Collection
Boy with Red Kerchief
A shirtless boy sits wearing blue pants with a red kerchief on his head.
Collection Object
L'Appollo del Belvedere

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Plaid Shawl
A portrait of a woman seated on a sofa. The figure wears a dress complemented by a plaid shawl around her shoulders. She looks out beyond the pictorial space of the image.
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Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
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Carrot with cricket

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Study for 'The Daughters of the Mist'

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Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men

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Gee! I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Navy, Naval Reserve, or Coast Guard

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For Your Boy - United War Work Campaign

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Portrait of Sir Frederick Leighton, PRA

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Isadora Duncan
Drawing of a woman, kneeling, facing viewer, arms extended to the ground on the sides of her body, head leaning back. 
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Isadora Duncan
A drawing of a woman standing, facing the viewer, with knees turned slightly to the left and arms extended to the sides, slightly raised. 
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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

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Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men's suits.
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Bust of Diana
Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.<br />
Collection Object
Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
Collection Object
F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
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Goat Herders Reverie

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Young Woman by a Window
Painting featuring a woman wearing a pink and white dress with a train and bustle pulling back a curtain in front of an open window. The woman is in a room decorated with blue and green wallpaper matching the curtain and she stands in front of a table containing potted plants.&nbsp;
Collection Object
Charity (La Charité)
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
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Vespasian hearing from one of his generals of the taking of Jerusalem by Titus
The Roman emperor Vespasian sits in an interior receiving a document from a standing figure to the right of the composition. The emperor is dressed in a white robe and sits on a red chair to the left of the composition. The interior is largely dark, with the exception of the emperor, whose figure is brightly lit.<br />The painting is in the original frame, which is constructed to resemble a Roman Temple with base, entablature, and fluted ionic pilasters.
Collection Object
Portrait of Whistler
This image shows a figure set back a bit from the viewer, and standing at an angle facing toward the left of the page. The figure is dressed in a black suit with a white shirt, and is standing on a fairly plain ground with just a few black lines. The figure's hair and outfit blend into the black background.
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Judgement of Solomon

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Ces dames des chars

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Two Figures

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La glace à main

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Head of a Dog

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The Seasons
Four women pose in an outdoor setting. Three women sit on the ground in light dresses, one reads and the other two look toward her book. One woman stands, leaning against a tree that frames the left-most side of the image; she wears a dark dress, her back turned to the viewer.
Collection Object
Balzac, The Open Sky
This photogravure is one of a series of photographs commissioned by Auguste Rodin of his statue of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. The cloaked figure is off-center and facing to the right of the frame. The sculpture emerges from the landscape, illuminated by light from behind and to the left.
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Le foyer de la Comedie-Francaise pendant le siege de Paris

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Les deux amis

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Le matin

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Les Petit Cavaliers, after Vélazquez
The image depicts thirteen men, arranged in three groups and facing in various directions, all standing in a generic outdoor setting. They wear seventeenth century-style costume consisting predominantly of black coats and trousers with white square collars. Several wear black hats, and one waves his hat in the air. The majority either carry or lean on swords. 
Collection Object
Le Chat et les fleurs
On a wooden ledge in the foreground, a cat rubs up against a clawed pot holding flowers. The feline's coat is dark with the exception of a white strip running from its belly up to its chin.  An iron railing spans the width of the background. A second pot of flowers without clawed feet is visible behind the cat; some of its flowers appear to be growing through the lattice of the railing. 
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Bathers

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The Bathers (large plate)

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Bathers

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Croquis d'Eté. Pl.39: On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour...maigrir!...

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Soldier

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The Transforming World

Copyright
All Rights Reserved
Created by
Sean Joseph Kramer
Last Updated
May 25, 2022 4:46 p.m.

41 Items in this Learning Collection
Sea and Rain
The painting depicts a solitary male figure standing along the shore. The thin layers of paint evoke a misty, overcast day with the figure standing perhaps on a tidal flat.
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Jamaica Bay
Horizontal landscape of a misty harbor view with several small boats in distance near center
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View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Horizontal view of harbor scene with water, dock, and boats. Small figures and trees on pier in middle ground. WMC painted in green in lower right corner.
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Le Port de le Havre (Le Havre, un Bassin)
Boats are docked at a seaport under an expanse of cloudy, overcast sky. The horizon line is low, and all the vessels are sailboats, with the exception of one dingy on the left hand side. The color palette is dominated by greys, blues, blacks, browns and whites.
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The Star
A sailboat with its sails set aloft in the shape of two triangles is silhouetted against a cloudy sky illuminated by the sun. Reflections of the boat and sun reach into the foreground of the image toward the viewer. 
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La Pointe du Sérai
View down onto a busy seaport populated by numerous steamships and smaller watercraft. A sliver of land with various towers and domed structures stretches across the horizon line in the distance. 
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Boulevard de l'Impératrice (N. Africa)

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Roofless House after the Lucknow Mutiny
This photograph depicts a view of a devastated palatial building. Before its shattered portico is a pile of rubble and fragments of columns. Four men in turbans are seated on the ground before the building. 
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The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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Tropical Ocean

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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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The Lincoln Memorial

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Statue of Liberty, New York

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The Steerage
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship.&nbsp;
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Perils of the Sea ('Peril on the Sea')

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Figure of a Girl in Blue (portrait of Miss Minnie Clark)
Portrait of a woman with dark hair and fair skin seated in a chair wearing a blue dress amid a sparse background of blues, greens, and browns; her body is positioned at an angle towards the right, while she looks directly out at the viewer.
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The Maid of Finistère

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Oka and Walmacho
In this painting, done in broad brush strokes, the figures of two women fill the composition. The woman on the right is seated in profile and the other, standing behind her, gazes out into the distance. They both wear shawls which make their bodies monolithic forms. A strong outline appears, especially around their heads, because they are set againist a plain white wall. There is also a strong color contrast between the dark black shawl worn by the standing woman and light pink shawl of the seated one. An amulet made of bone and feathers hangs on the wall in the upper right corner of the painting.
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F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
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Seven Kiowah Men

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Model for cavalry soldier
Plaster sculpture of a man dressed in a Civil War military uniform; arms are broken off at mid-bicep. <br />
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Engineering Corps
A group of soldiers stand and sit in a landscape; some face the camera while others are posed engaged in conversation. Behind them stand several tall trees and between them a tent with the flaps decorated with an American flag. Seated alone to the left is a young African-American man holding a broom.
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Soldier

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Guerre Civile
A man laying on his back dominates this landscape-oriented black-and-white lithograph. He is fully dressed. Positioned diagonally across the foreground and depicted using dramatic foreshortening, his face is near the viewer (a mustache is visible, and he wears a hat reminiscent of a kepi, or military hat), while his stiff upturned feet lead the eye towards the ramshackle wall of paving stones that cuts horizontally across the top third of the composition. A pair of feet peeking out of striped trousers jut into the lower right foreground, while stones and possibly a wheel fill the left foreground. Hazy fences and buildings rise in the background empty stretches of street.<br /><br /> The work is signed on the stone (on one of the piled-up paving stones) in the front left foreground: “Manet / 1871”.<br /><br /> Title printed in typeface below the image: "GUERRE CIVILE"
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A vingt ans

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La glace à main

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Votes for Women
In this drawing, four women walkshoulder to shoulder toward the left. They are wearing long skirts of the early twentieth century and sashes, and they are carrying pendants over their right shoulders and small pieces of paper in their left.
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Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
Collection Object
Versaille DePuis Le Parterre Du Midi
A view of a waterfront building with rising hills in the background.&nbsp;
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The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
A sweeping winter river scene opens up from the foreground and sweeps away towards the left. Ice floes dot the river surface and snowy hills frame trees that stand along the riverbank in the middle distance. The palette of this painting is restricted to mauves, blues, greens, and whites.
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Deer in the Woods
A deer stands in front of a tree, with tail towards the viewer. There is a creek that runs along the left side of the image. It is a heavily wooded area with stones in the creek and brighter green grass on the right side.
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Sunset
Landscape scene depicting trees silhouetted against a reddening sky with a dead fallen tree trunk lying diagonally across the foreground.
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Spring Landscape
Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.
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Landscape at Palo

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The Dead Sea, from Masada

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Alpine View, Glacier (Savoie)
Photograph of a glacier in the Alps near Savoie, viewed from a village at the base of the mountains.
Collection Object
Canyon de Chelly
A team of seven people on horses and a dog cross the desert. They appear small compared to the vast rocky landforms behind them.
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No. 247

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University of Michigan

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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

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The First Mirror (Looking into the Hand Mirror)

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39 Items in this Learning Collection
Boy with Red Kerchief
A shirtless boy sits wearing blue pants with a red kerchief on his head.
Collection Object
L'Appollo del Belvedere

Collection Object
Plaid Shawl
A portrait of a woman seated on a sofa. The figure wears a dress complemented by a plaid shawl around her shoulders. She looks out beyond the pictorial space of the image.
Collection Object
Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
Collection Object
Carrot with cricket

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Study for 'The Daughters of the Mist'

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Join the Navy, the Service for Fighting Men

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Gee! I Wish I Were a Man - I'd Join the Navy, Naval Reserve, or Coast Guard

Collection Object
For Your Boy - United War Work Campaign

Collection Object
Portrait of Sir Frederick Leighton, PRA

Collection Object
Isadora Duncan
Drawing of a woman, kneeling, facing viewer, arms extended to the ground on the sides of her body, head leaning back. 
Collection Object
Isadora Duncan
A drawing of a woman standing, facing the viewer, with knees turned slightly to the left and arms extended to the sides, slightly raised. 
Collection Object
St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

Collection Object
Men's Fashions
Display window advertising men&#39;s suits.
Collection Object
Bust of Diana
Bust-length figure of a woman with head turned proper left, down-turned eyelids and crescent moon atop head; executed in bronze with a rich, dark patina on a brownish stone base.<br />
Collection Object
Roses and Flowers in a Glass
This painting depicts a glass vase with roses, phlox, and other flowers standing on a table. One pink rose lies next to the vase on the table; the background is an undifferentiated background of brown/tan.
Collection Object
F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
Collection Object
Goat Herders Reverie

Collection Object
Young Woman by a Window
Painting featuring a woman wearing a pink and white dress with a train and bustle pulling back a curtain in front of an open window. The woman is in a room decorated with blue and green wallpaper matching the curtain and she stands in front of a table containing potted plants.&nbsp;
Collection Object
Charity (La Charité)
Painting of a woman holding two sleeping nude babies, wearing white fabric draped over her head and shoulders with abundant blue-green fabric wrapped and loosely gathered around the rest of her body standing in front of a lush background with areas of blue sky peaking through the foliage.
Collection Object
Vespasian hearing from one of his generals of the taking of Jerusalem by Titus
The Roman emperor Vespasian sits in an interior receiving a document from a standing figure to the right of the composition. The emperor is dressed in a white robe and sits on a red chair to the left of the composition. The interior is largely dark, with the exception of the emperor, whose figure is brightly lit.<br />The painting is in the original frame, which is constructed to resemble a Roman Temple with base, entablature, and fluted ionic pilasters.
Collection Object
Portrait of Whistler
This image shows a figure set back a bit from the viewer, and standing at an angle facing toward the left of the page. The figure is dressed in a black suit with a white shirt, and is standing on a fairly plain ground with just a few black lines. The figure's hair and outfit blend into the black background.
Collection Object
Judgement of Solomon

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Ces dames des chars

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Two Figures

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La glace à main

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Head of a Dog

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The Seasons
Four women pose in an outdoor setting. Three women sit on the ground in light dresses, one reads and the other two look toward her book. One woman stands, leaning against a tree that frames the left-most side of the image; she wears a dark dress, her back turned to the viewer.
Collection Object
Balzac, The Open Sky
This photogravure is one of a series of photographs commissioned by Auguste Rodin of his statue of the French writer Honoré de Balzac. The cloaked figure is off-center and facing to the right of the frame. The sculpture emerges from the landscape, illuminated by light from behind and to the left.
Collection Object
Le foyer de la Comedie-Francaise pendant le siege de Paris

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Les deux amis

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Le matin

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Les Petit Cavaliers, after Vélazquez
The image depicts thirteen men, arranged in three groups and facing in various directions, all standing in a generic outdoor setting. They wear seventeenth century-style costume consisting predominantly of black coats and trousers with white square collars. Several wear black hats, and one waves his hat in the air. The majority either carry or lean on swords. 
Collection Object
Le Chat et les fleurs
On a wooden ledge in the foreground, a cat rubs up against a clawed pot holding flowers. The feline's coat is dark with the exception of a white strip running from its belly up to its chin.  An iron railing spans the width of the background. A second pot of flowers without clawed feet is visible behind the cat; some of its flowers appear to be growing through the lattice of the railing. 
Collection Object
Bathers

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The Bathers (large plate)

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Bathers

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Croquis d'Eté. Pl.39: On m'a conseillé les bains froids pour...maigrir!...

Collection Object
Soldier

Collection Object

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F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume

Accession Number
1971/2.146

Title
F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume

Artist(s)
Frederick H. Evans

Artist Nationality
British (modern)

Object Creation Date
1901

Medium & Support
platinum print on paper

Dimensions
6 5/16 in x 8 5/16 in (16 cm x 21.1 cm);14 5/16 in x 19 5/16 in (36.35 cm x 49.05 cm);15 1/4 in x 10 5/8 in (38.8 cm x 27 cm);6 5/16 in x 8 5/16 in (16.03 cm x 21.11 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase

Subject matter
This theatrical portrait of F. Holland Day, a good friend of Frederick Evans, depicts Day in Algerian costume. This was one of many images taken of Day in such costumes, which he brought back with him after a trip to Algiers. Day sits with his legs crossed, hunched over, and looking down at his clasped hands. This photograph employs the soft focus and lighting typical of Evans portrait photography.

Physical Description
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
Algeria
Algerian
Victorian
costume (mode of fashion)
costumes
males
men (male humans)
modern and contemporary art
portraits
seated

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