Slight lowering of the angle of the mouth due to depression (left); False laughter (right)

Provenance

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

Slight lowering of the angle of the mouth due to depression (left); False laughter (right)

Duchenne (de Boulogne), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amant

1854-1856, printed 1862

Accession Number

2015.52.23

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 22.8 × 16.4 cm (9 × 6 7/16 in.) | mount: 40.3 × 27.8 cm (15 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund