With a Severed Head
SOLD March 2013 |
Vintage albumen print, an elaborate photomontage that seems composed of at least five different images, including a cavalry swordsman on wooden horse and severed living head, circa 1885, by Victor Coue, Saumur, France. Card imprinted front "Victor Coue / Saumur" and on reverse "Victor Coue Peintre-Photographe de l'Ecole de Cavalerie de Saumur / Rue d'Orleans N. 50."
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