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The image shows a portrait of a person in a profile view facing right. The individual has prominent facial features, short combed-back hair, and wears a light-colored robe. There are no visible accessories. The background is dark, contrasting with the lighter foreground within an oval frame.
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The image shows a portrait of a person in a profile view facing right. The individual has prominent facial features, short combed-back hair, and wears a light-colored robe. There are no visible accessories. The background is dark, contrasting with the lighter foreground within an oval frame.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

A portrait, seen in profile, of a man 42 years old, stupefied by the abuse of alcohol; his nose is aquiline

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant Duchenne (de Boulogne)

Date
1854-1856, printed 1862
Medium
albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.5 × 16.6 cm (8 7/8 × 6 9/16 in.) mount: 42 × 27.9 cm (16 9/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2015.52.29
Credit line
Edward E. MacCrone 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. 40.; lower center-right of mount in black letterpress: Duchenne (de Boulogne), phot.

NGA object ID 169280. 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.