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Fig. 58 (Recto)
Adrien Tournachon, Duchenne de Boulogne
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of Dr. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne) holding an electrode under a patient's chin to demonstrate the use of electrical current to cause facial muscles to contract and produce a slightly slack-jawed expression.
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Details
- Title: Fig. 58 (Recto)
- Creator: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Adrien Alban Tournachon
- Date Created: negative about 1856; print 1862
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Physical Dimensions: 22.3 × 17.6 cm (8 3/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print from a collodion-on-glass negative
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2019.6.3
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon (French, 1825 - 1903)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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