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accession number:	2018.8
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Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine: Figure 7: Étude du méchanisme et de l'expression du muscle frontal chez un vieillard: à droit, attention; à gauche, repos, 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: 16.2 x 11.9 cm (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.); paper: 23.5 x 17.9 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 in.); mounted: 41.2 x 27.4 cm (16 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2018.8

title:				Figure 7: Étude du méchanisme et de l'expression du muscle frontal chez un vieillard: à droit, attention; à gauche, repos
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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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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: 16.2 x 11.9 cm (6 3/8 x 4 11/16 in.); Paper: 23.5 x 17.9 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/16 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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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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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

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.8/2018.8_full.tif