Photographs
Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif
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Details
- Author / creator
- Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (French, 1806–1875)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- c. 1856, printed 1862
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 16.4 × 12.2 cm; Paper: 22.7 × 17.3 cm; Mounted: 41.1 × 27.4 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
Duchenne described this model, a former shoemaker, as “an old, toothless man, with a thin face, whose features, without being absolutely ugly, approached ordinary triviality.” When criticized for using such an unattractive model, Duchenne held him up as proof that “every human face could become spiritually beautiful through the accurate rendering of his or her emotions.”
Materials and technique
Albumen print from glass plate negative
Signature and marks
The handwriting of the inscription matches the handwriting of the inscriptions on the other four Duchenne photographs, one of which has a European style 1.: On the verso, lower left, in graphite, “fig 54”
