Lot 39: GUILLAUME-BENJAMIN DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE (1806-1875)

Medical study of a child with Duchenne (back view), mid-1850s
coated salt print
8 7/8 x 6 5/8in. (22.6 x 16.8cm.)

Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Duchenne de Boulogne 1806-1875, January - April 1999.

This print was reproduced in exhibition catalogue, Duchenne de Boulogne 1806-1875, Paris, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 1999, p.240.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Duchenne de Boulogne is best-known for his series of photographs on human physiognomy published in 1862. While he made other medical portraits such as this and the photographs in the following two lots, presumambly for personal reference or research purposes, examples are rare today.

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