Pain and despair
1854-1856, printed 1862
Artist, French, 1806 - 1875
Artist, French, 1825 - 1903
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.3 × 16.4 cm (8 3/4 × 6 7/16 in.)
mount: 40.2 × 27.7 cm (15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.52.11
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
Inscriptions
in Adrien Tournachon's hand, lower left on image in black ink: Nadar Jeune; upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 45.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154672