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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

A false, incomplete expression of agreeable surprise, or admiration, 1854-1856, printed 1862

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portfolio Title

Mécanisme de la Physionomie (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression)

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 21.8 × 16 cm (8 9/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 40.3 × 27.5 cm (15 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Fund, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2015.52.10

Artists / Makers

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne) (artist) French, 1806 - 1875

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 33.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.

Provenance

Alphonse Bertillon, Paris; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon, Paris; NGA purchase (through Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2015.

Associated Names

Vincent-Bertillon, Pascal

Exhibition History

2015: Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

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