Figure 51: À droite, contraction partielle de l'élévateur commun de l'aile du nez et de la lèvre supérieure: mécontentement, mauvaise humeur; à gauche, repos
Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (de Boulogne) (French, 1806–1875)
Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903)
c. 1856, printed 1862
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 19.5 x 17 cm (7 11/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Paper: 21.5 x 17 cm (8 7/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Mounted: 41.1 x 27.5 cm (16 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This photograph is part of the first systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression. In order to demonstrate how each individual muscle contributed to creating an expression, Duchenne stimulated one or more muscles on one side of the face and left the other at rest.
