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

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

Adrien Tournachon: French, 1825 - 1903

Weeping, tears of pity (left); Relaxed face (right)
1854-1856: albumen print, printed 1862; 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.); Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund; 2015.52.27; Not on View

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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.