Expression of terror
1854-1856, printed 1862
Artist, French, 1806 - 1875

Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.5 × 16 cm (8 7/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
mount: 40.5 × 27.8 cm (15 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.52.28
Associated Artworks
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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

Surprise
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
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
Inscriptions
upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 62. ["2" written over in graphite with "3"]; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154679