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This is a photograph of a man conducting an experiment with electrical apparatus on a model or mannequin. The photograph features a bald figure on the left adjusting something connected to another mannequin or model in the center. Thin wires are attached to the central figure's face, leading back towards the hand of the left figure.
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This is a photograph of a man conducting an experiment with electrical apparatus on a model or mannequin. The photograph features a bald figure on the left adjusting something connected to another mannequin or model in the center. Thin wires are attached to the central figure's face, leading back towards the hand of the left figure.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Aggression, wickedness

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Date
1854-1856, printed 1862
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 22 × 16.2 cm (8 11/16 × 6 3/8 in.) mount: 40.2 × 27.6 cm (15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2015.52.20
Credit line
Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Portfolio
Mécanisme de la Physionomie (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression)

Subjects and terms

  • French
  • portrait
  • albumen silver print
  • Facial expression
  • Science
  • Electrical
Provenance

Alphonse Bertillon, Paris; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon, Paris; NGA purchase (through Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2015.

Inscription

upper center of mount in black letterpress: Électro-Physiologie Photographique. / Fig. 18.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.

NGA object ID 169269. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.