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L'Empereur

A bearded ruler in armor, crowned, resting against a cubic stone marked with an eagle, scepter in hand and legs crossed, a flower springing at his feet. The cube is deliberate: where the Empress has wings, he sits on matter given form. Wirth kept the Marseille pose and tightened its geometry.

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