id:			307219
accession number:	2018.7
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.7
updated:		2022-01-04 18:07:30.064000

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine: Figure 45: Contraction électrique forte des triangulaires des lèvres et des sourciliers: douleur et déspoir, 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: 23.5 x 17.9 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.); oval opening: 16.2 x 11.9 cm (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.); mounted: 41.2 x 27.4 cm (16 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2018.7

title:				Figure 45: Contraction électrique forte des triangulaires des lèvres et des sourciliers: douleur et déspoir
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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:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
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: 23.5 x 17.9 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.); Oval opening: 16.2 x 11.9 cm (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.); Mounted: 41.2 x 27.4 cm (16 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	On the verso, lower left corner, in graphite, “fig. 7”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Serge Kakou, Paris, France)
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	(Robert Hershkowitz Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom)
	date: 2017-2018
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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.

digital description: 
Duchenne embarked on the first scientific, systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression and hoped, through photographs of his experiments, to teach artists how to portray those emotions. The experiments were performed by applying electrical stimulation to a single muscle on one side of the face, so that the viewer could clearly see the impact of the muscular contraction.

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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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	Sobieszek, Robert A. Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 : Essays on Camera Portraiture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999.
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.7/2018.7_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.7/2018.7_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.7/2018.7_full.tif