Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum still bank as if the mold had

as if the mold had been used a thousand times before it got to casting this one

looking quite peaceful and cozy

Leather is dry and shows lots of cracking

or over the stove

Late 19th C. Grand Tour Albumen Photo of Seated Woman (formerly described as Agrippina the Younger), Naples Museum still bank as if the mold hadThere is a dealer at an antique mall near Boston I frequent who has been doling out late 19th century Grand Tour albumen prints of sculptures in the collection of the Napoli Museo (National Archaeological Museum of Naples) a few at a time and I keep snapping them up. The marble sculpture here was long thought to portray the Empress Agrippina the Younger, or "Minor" wife of Claudius and mother of Nero but that attribution was changed in the early 20th