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'Nature Revealing Herself to Science'
a silvered and gilt bronze and alabaster figure, cast and carved from a model by Ernest-Louis Barrias, of a young woman wrapped in loosely draped cloak, standing and coyly revealing her naked bosom, a blue scarab beetle below her chest, on a mottled red and white marble base, signed in the bronze (minor restoration) -- 58cm. high
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a silvered and gilt bronze and alabaster figure, cast and carved from a model by Ernest-Louis Barrias, of a young woman wrapped in loosely draped cloak, standing and coyly revealing her naked bosom, a blue scarab beetle below her chest, on a mottled red and white marble base, signed in the bronze (minor restoration) -- 58cm. high
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