Duchenne De Boulogne, Guillaume
French (1806-1875)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Faradisation du muscle frontal
ALBUM TITLE: Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume-Benjamin. --Album de photographies pathologique complementaire du livre intitulé de l'electrisation localisée.--, Paris, 1862

1862
albumen print
18.7 x 11.7 cm.
Museum Purchase: Ford Motor Co. Fund
GEH NEG: 46171
96:0598:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
This image was part of GEH's submission to Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) in 1999.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 283.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Inside Out: 50 Years of Collecting", US, NY, Rochester April 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: page recto-(printed) "Photographies Pathologiques" "Faradisation du muscle frontal, par l'auteur." page verso-(printed) "Album De Photographies Pathologiques."

NOTES: Catalogued 11/96, DZ. Purchased from Sotheby's Photographs auction (sale # 6888), New York, October 2, 1996, lot # 68. "This plate appeared in Duchenne de Boulogne's --Album de photographies pathologique complementaire du livre intitulé de l'electrisation localisée (Paris, 1862). This volume was intended as a companion to Duchenne de Boulogne's 1861 publication --De l'electrisation localisée-- and is much rarer than his --Mecanisime de la physionomie humaine--." [Sotheby's, --Photographs--, October 2, 1996, unp.] "In the 1850 'Bulletin de l'Academie,' Duchenne made his first public reference to his lengthy study of the relationship between muscular contraction [facial] and expressed emotion, via a process he delineated as 'faradism,' in which electrical stimmulus is applied directly to or through the skin by rheopore. Duchenne enacted this mechanism on both the bodies of his patients and still-malleable cadavers which were photographed during the electrical activity in order to isolate and classify their muscular actions."

SUBJECTS:
portrait, males
event, medical