Toulet. Guy, Flavien. 41 ans, né à Boufler (Somme). Entrepreneur de peinture. Anarchiste. 23/3/94.
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
10.5 x 7 x 0.5 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/4 x 3/16 in.) each
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.375.412
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the shadowy world of 19th-century criminal identification with Alphonse Bertillon'sToulet. Guy, Flav. 41 ans, né à Boufler (Somme). Entrepreneur de peinture Anarchiste. 23/3/94* (1894). This intimate albumen silver print from glass negative captures Flavien Guy Toulet, 41-year-old painting and self-identified anarchist from northern France. Measuring just 10.5 x 7 cm, the small-scale portrait—part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art'sman Collection—serves as a stark mugshot, documenting Toulet amid France's turbulent era of social unrest. Bertillon, the pioneering French forensic phot...
About the Artist
Alphonse Bertillon · 1853–1914
Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914) was a pioneering French photographer whose work revolutionized forensic documentation, transforming police identification into a precise visual science. Born in Paris on April 22, 1853, he was the son of medical professor and statistician Louis-Adolphe Bertillon and the younger brother of demographer Jacques Bertillon. Lacking formal higher education after expulsion ...