Face in repose
1854-1856, printed 1862
Artist, French, 1806 - 1875
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.5 × 16.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)
mount: 40.4 × 27.5 cm (15 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.52.1
Associated Artworks
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Mécanisme de la Physionomie (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
1862
Face in repose
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
1854
The muscle of attention (left); Eyebrow contraction due to bright light (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
1854
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Alphonse Bertillon, Paris; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon, Paris; NGA purchase (through Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 3.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154646