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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne) and Adrien Tournachon

Weeping, tears of pity (left); Relaxed face (right), 1854-1856, printed 1862

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portfolio Title

Mécanisme de la Physionomie, 1862

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 22.3 × 16.5 cm (8 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
mount: 42 × 27.5 cm (16 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2015.52.27

Artists / Makers

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

Adrien Tournachon (artist) French, 1825 - 1903

Image Use

Open Access image.
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Inscription

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. 46.; 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.

Associated Names

Vincent-Bertillon, Pascal

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