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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne): French, 1806 - 1875

Expression of severity
1854-1856: albumen print, printed 1862; image: 22.6 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.)
mount: 40.2 × 27.7 cm (15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.); W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Fund, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art; 2015.52.4; Not on View

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Inscription

upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 16.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.

Provenance

Alphonse Bertillon, Paris; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon, Paris; NGA purchase (through Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2015.