Expression of severity

Provenance

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

Expression of severity

Duchenne (de Boulogne), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant

1854-1856, printed 1862

Accession Number

2015.52.4

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 22.6 × 16.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.) | mount: 40.2 × 27.7 cm (15 13/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Fund, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art