https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/arts/design/baroness-rothschild-skulls-exhibition.html
By Daphné Anglès
Sept. 25, 2018
TOULOUSE, France — Just what was the appeal of tiny sculpted and carved skulls to an elegant French socialite married into the Rothschild banking dynasty? Almost a century after her death, the question of what drove Mathilde de Rothschild’s passion for macabre artifacts remains an enigma.