Electro-physiologie Photographique, Fig. 81. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, photographer (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon, photographer (French, 1825 - 1903) negative about 1856, print 1876 View of Dr. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne) holding an electrode between the eyes of a woman to demonstrate the use of electrical current to cause facial muscles to contract and produce an expression of meanness. The woman wears a loosely fitted dress and sits with one hand in her lap holding a knife and the other holding her breast. (Recto, image) upper right, inscribed in negative
Electro-physiologie Photographique, Fig. 81. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, photographer (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon, photographer (French, 1825 - 1903) negative about 1856, print 1876 View of Dr. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne) holding an electrode between the eyes of a woman to demonstrate the use of electrical current to cause facial muscles to contract and produce an expression of meanness. The woman wears a loosely fitted dress and sits with one hand in her lap holding a knife and the other holding her breast. (Recto, image) upper right, inscribed in negative, right corner: "Fig. 81." (Recto, mount) upper center, in black ink by mechanical press: "Electro-Physiologie Photographique" Lower right, in black ink by mechanical press: "DUCHENNE (de Boulogne), phot." (Verso, mount) lower left, in pencil by unknown later hand: "IB (Duch.)/ "
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