Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne
Feeble false laughter

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Feeble false laughter
  • from Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou Analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques (Mechanism of Human Physiognomy or Electro-Physiological Analysis of the Expression of Passions Applicable to the Practice of the Visuals Arts.)
Date1854–1856, printed 1862
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 6 5/16 in. (22.4 × 16 cm)
Sheet: 8 13/16 × 6 5/16 in. (22.4 × 16 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (40.3 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2015.53
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceLikely Alphonse Bertillon, Paris, d. 1914; by descent to Pascal Vincent-Bertillon; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom right edge of mount in pencil: pl. md att.[?]
printed top center of mount: ÉLECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIQUE. / FIG. 48

printed lower right below image: DUCHENNE(de Bougoyne), phot.

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