Funeral Art Memento Hair Landscape

Imagine a world without screens, a world without photos, a non-virtual world… Yes, it existed. Back then, people had found a way to keep their departed loved ones close. They entrusted professionals with the creation of a memento mori, crafted from the deceased's hair. When the hair was ground into powder and then glued onto a watercolor background and delicately crafted to create a mausoleum, a tomb, a weeping willow, a cypress, a bouquet of flowers, it was only financially accessible to the wealthy. Here, fortunately, this blackened wooden frame still bears the inscription of Odette Jeanmotte. She tells us that the grand mausoleum is composed of the white hair of her father, who died on October 9, 1821, and the chestnut hair of her mother, who died on January 19, 1831… Her name was Elisabeth. I'll let you discover the rest of the post. This funerary art frame has never been opened since its creation before the mid-19th century.