GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN-AMAND DUCHENNE with ADRIEN TOURNACHON

'Mcanique de la Physionomie', before March 1857, published 1862; plaster cast of deformed infant, circa 1855-57

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GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN-AMAND DUCHENNE with ADRIEN TOURNACHON
'Mcanique de la Physionomie', before March 1857, published 1862; plaster cast of deformed infant, circa 1855-57
Albumen print, 8.7/8 x 7 in., mounted on card, printed title and credits Mcanique de la Physionomie par Le Dr. Duchenne de Boulogne. A. T. Nadar Jne. Phot., matted; coated salt print, 8.7/8 x 6 in. with oval vignetted image 5 x 4.3/8 in., matted. (2)

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Literature

Mathon et al, Duchenne de Boulogne, p. 233 (another print of the first image with additional manuscript inscriptions) and pp. 54-59.

Lot Essay

The first of the prints in this lot is a plate prepared for Duchenne's submission for the Prix Volta in March 1857, an award for the most useful application of electricity. It varies from that used in his later publication of 1862, where the title was altered to Mcanisme de la Physionomie. Only two prints of this image are known. The other, in Les Archives de la Ville de Paris, has had the credit to Tournachon deleted.

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