Expression of severity
1854-1856, printed 1862
Artist, French, 1806 - 1875
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
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.) -
Accession Number
2015.52.4
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
upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 16.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.
Wikidata ID
Q64154654