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accession number:	2018.11
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Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine: Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif, c. 1856, printed 1862. Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (French, 1806-1875), Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825-1903). Albumen print from glass plate negative; image: 16.4 x 12.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); paper: 22.7 x 17.3 cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); mounted: 41.1 x 27.4 cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2018.11

title:				Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif
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series:				Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine
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creation date:			c. 1856, printed 1862
creation date earliest:		1851
creation date latest:		1861
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture:	France
technique:	Albumen print from glass plate negative
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 19th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

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

* Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825-1903)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 16.4 x 12.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); Paper: 22.7 x 17.3 cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Mounted: 41.1 x 27.4 cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	On the verso, lower left, in graphite, “fig 54”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Serge Kakou, Paris, France)
	date: ?-2017
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	(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom)
	date: 2017–18
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	sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: February 26, 2018-
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fun fact: 
Duchenne, a neurologist at a hospital for the poor in Paris, turned to photography to record the grammar of human expression.

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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.”

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Liberatore, Virginia, and G.-B. Duchenne. Performing the Passions between Classical and Modern Epistemes: Text and Photography in Duchenne De Boulogne's "Mécanisme De La Physionomie Humaine". 2002.
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	Duchenne, G.-B., and R. Andrew Cuthbertson. The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. 2006.
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	Prodger, Phillip. Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.11/2018.11_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.11/2018.11_full.tif