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Hidden Beauty

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by Kelly Walters

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RISD Museum, 2015
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Selected Objects

Joseph Chinard

Bust of Madame Récamier
Bronze bust of a woman with regal expression, hair in twists, gold earrings, beaded necklaces adorning her collarbones, and a dark tightly-wrapped strapless top on a gold base.

Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier

African Venus (La Vénus africaine)

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