Terror mixed with pain, torture
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: 22.1 × 15.8 cm (8 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
mount: 40.3 × 27.6 cm (15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.52.15
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
Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016
2019
The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.
Inscriptions
upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 64.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154681