Name: GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE (1806–1875)
Brand: Personage Masculin, from Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine, c. 1865
Price: 1700.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE (1806–1875)
Personage Masculin, from Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine, c. 1865
albumen print, mounted on card
credited, titled and numbered 'Fig.48' in printed text (mount, recto); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 4⁵⁄₈ x 3⁵⁄₈ in. (11.9 x 9.2 cm.)
mount: 10³⁄₄ x 7 in. (27.3 x 17.7 cm.)

Lunn, Ltd., New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995.

W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 77.

Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.

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'The man’s face is contorted into an unfathomable chaos somewhere between bliss and terror. But it is impossible to know what any of these people were feeling or doing and that is fascinating, a potent mystery for the present.' –W.M. Hunt