A relaxed face (left); Profound attention (right)

Provenance

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

A relaxed face (left); Profound attention (right)

Duchenne (de Boulogne), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant

1854-1856, printed 1862

Accession Number

2015.52.17

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 22.3 × 16.2 cm (8 3/4 × 6 3/8 in.) | mount: 40.3 × 27.4 cm (15 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund

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