This impression appears to be strongly to resemble Dying. The blank expression of Bourgeois with Probably closed eyes and her pose which looks as if she has died in her slumber, lying on her aspect together with her hand up by her head scream Dying. Realism is introduced to the image by using a black and white colour scale, but This may also are to build on the some what gloomy environment from the image as well as age from the sitter. The profile perspective is pretty much a Loss of life…
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