Spasm of m. corrugator supercilii under very strong light (left); A relaxed face (photographed in full sunshine) (right)
1854-1855, printed 1862
Artist, French, 1806 - 1875
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Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.9 × 16.9 cm (9 × 6 5/8 in.)
mount: 40.3 × 27.6 cm (15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.52.6
Associated Artworks
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Mécanisme de la Physionomie (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
1862
Weeping, tears of pity (left); Relaxed face (right)
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne), Adrien Tournachon
1854
Scornful disgust (left); Scornful laughter (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
Exhibition History
2015
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016
Inscriptions
upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 22.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154657