Figure 54: Abaissement volontaire de la mâchoire inférieure: mouvement inexpressif
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: 16.4 x 12.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in.); Paper: 22.7 x 17.3 cm (8 15/16 x 6 13/16 in.); Mounted: 41.1 x 27.4 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
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.”
