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Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed Back to main page for this exhibition Back to images from this exhibition Corset, 1750–60 Italian Yellow, red, and ivory silk compound weave Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940 (CI 40.173.6a–e)

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