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That's interesting, because out of curiosity I trimmed the image down and straightened it out and submitted it to Google image search and I got:

Best guess for this image: la treille
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La Treille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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La Treille is a quartier on the outskirts of the 11th arrondissement of Marseille, in the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône, France. It has approximately 900 ...

Pierre André Latreille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pierre André Latreille (November 29, 1762 – February 6, 1833) was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest ...
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I got no mention of Bouguereau or the particular painting. Didn't know what to make of that result so I assumed it was wrong.
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Except for the 'Pugnacious Kitty' on pink where they accidentaly wrote 'viralo' instead of 'biralo' (the circle half-mast on a stick, to the left of the '2,' has no line through it)
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Made me wonder how sumptuous his emphysema ward would be, which reminded me of the ground emerald medicine of Lorenzo de Medici, which made me look him up. Turns out he has a death mask that is pretty close in likeness to some of his paintings. I guess the paintings were fairly accurate. I'm always surprised to find an image of a death mask from someone for whom I thought we'd never really know their appearance. You guys should do a post on death masks of historical figures.

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