Provenance
Alphonse Bertillon, Paris; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon, Paris; NGA purchase (through Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2015.
The muscle of attention (left); Eyebrow contraction due to bright light (right)
1854-1856, printed 1862
Accession Number
2015.52.3
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 22.1 × 16.7 cm (8 11/16 × 6 9/16 in.) | mount: 40.3 × 27.7 cm (15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Credit Line
W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Fund, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art