The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses a pair of scrapbooks containing obituaries and death notices for late 19th and early 20th-century, some who were famous (like Auguste Rodin or Jules Breton), but most of whom were not.
The scrapbooks were created by Arturo B. de St. M. D’Hervilly, an Assistant Curator of Paintings.
Many of the hundreds of clippings he preserved appear to be the only traces remaining of these artists’ creative existence on this earth.
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