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Figure 45: Pain and despair.

Figure 45: Pain and despair.

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

1854–1856

Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image (Oval): 28.6 × 20.4 cm (11 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.) Sheet: 29.8 × 22.9 cm (11 3/4 × 9 in.) Mount: 40.1 × 28.4 cm (15 13/16 × 11 3/16 in.)
Genre: Photograph
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Figure 8: Contraction of the right m. frontalis.

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Figure 48: Mild weeping, pity and feeble false laughter

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Figure 42: Gaiety expressed by the ideas of lustfulness, cynicism, and lewdness.

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Figure 55: Astonishment badly rendered by the subject: a ridiculous and inane expression.

Figure 55: Astonishment badly rendered by the subject: a ridiculous and inane expression.

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Figure 71: Same head as in Plate 70

Figure 71: Same head as in Plate 70

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Figure 3: The face of an old man... photographed in repose.

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Figure 45: Pain and despair. by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne — VisualArtsDB