Alphonse Bertillon
Cours théorique de signalement descriptif (portrait parlé) en vingt leçons, exercices pratiques de reconnaissances d’identité
Artist
Alphonse Bertillon(French, 1853–1914)French, 1853–1914
CultureFrench
Titles
- Cours théorique de signalement descriptif (portrait parlé) en vingt leçons, exercices pratiques de reconnaissances d’identité
- Course on the Theory of Individual Description (Spoken Portrait) in Twenty Lessons, Practical Exercises of Identity Recognition
Datec. 1900
MediumBook of gelatin silver prints
DimensionsSheet: 11 13/16 × 6 11/16 in. (30 × 17 cm)
Overall: 12 5/8 × 8 7/16 × 1/4 in. (32.1 × 21.4 × 0.7 cm)
Overall: 12 5/8 × 8 7/16 × 1/4 in. (32.1 × 21.4 × 0.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2016.341
Not on view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
photographic charts in this album illustrate the seemingly infinite variety of
physical characteristics that make up an individual’s face, ranging from a
general profile and the shape of the forehead and hairline to the size,
contours, and details of the ears, nose, lips, and eyebrows. Alphonse
Bertillon, director of the Paris Police Department, photographed and assembled
these images to accompany a course he developed to train his agents to observe
subjects more closely and describe them more accurately.
Provenance[Ader Nordmann, Paris, Photographies & Livres de Photographies, November 12, 2016, 52 (illus.), lot 81]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
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