The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 4, 2024
Figure 32: Natural laughter by the voluntary contraction of the two large zygomatics and the lower palpebral orbicularis
c. 1856, printed 1862
(French, 1806–1875)
(French, 1825–1903)
Image: 15.1 x 11 cm (5 15/16 x 4 5/16 in.); Paper: 22.7 x 17 cm (8 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Mounted: 41 x 27.6 cm (16 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
Duchenne embarked on the first scientific, systematic exploration of the physiology of human facial expression and hoped, through photographs of the experiments, to teach artists how to portray those emotions. Here, he has photographed a subject’s natural smile and described the muscles creating it. In subsequent photographs, he used an electrode to contract one of the muscles that convey that same emotion.- ?-2017(Serge Kakou, Paris, France)2017–18(Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom)February 26, 2018-sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Sobieszek, Robert A. Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000 : Essays on Camera Portraiture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999.Prodger, Phillip. Darwin's Camera: Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.Duchenne, G.-B., and R. Andrew Cuthbertson. The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. 2006.Liberatore, Virginia, and G.-B. Duchenne. Performing the Passions between Classical and Modern Epistemes: Text and Photography in Duchenne De Boulogne's "Mécanisme De La Physionomie Humaine". 2002.
- Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
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