Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine: Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif, c. 1856. Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (French, 1806-1875), Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825-1903). Albumen print from glass plate negative (printed 1862); image: x cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); paper: x cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); mounted: x cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.). Duchenne described this model, a former shoemaker, as “an old, toothless man, with a thin face, whose features, without being absolutely ugly, approached ordinary
Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine: Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif, c. 1856. Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (French, 1806-1875), Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825-1903). Albumen print from glass plate negative (printed 1862); image: x cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); paper: x cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); mounted: x cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.). Duchenne described this model, a former shoemaker, as “an old, toothless man, with a thin face, whose features, without being absolutely ugly, approached ordinary triviality.” When criticized for using such an unattractive model, Duchenne held him up as proof that “every human face could become spiritually beautiful through the accurate rendering of his or her emotions.”
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