Talk:Physiognotrace

John Hawkins
Please not that I have seen both of these initials used for the inventor: John J. Hawkins and John I. Hawkins. I chose John J. because of the quality of the sources that quoted that particular set of initials. Still, this is worth looking into. Vsanborn (talk) 00:11, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Spelling
The page should be consistent with its spelling choice of either physionotrace or physiognotrace. MichaelKovich (talk) 20:28, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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6.5m wide?


In a revision date-stamped 06:55 26 March 2020 user Taksen made numerous changes, including adding the following:

"The sitter climbed into a wooden frame (1.75m high x 6.5m wide), sat and turned to the side to pose."

No reference is cited.

It is simply not credible that the device would be more than 20 feet wide, and the JPG illustration of the device doesn't support the statement. Perhaps Taksen would like to post a citation?

216.239.86.48 (talk) 02:27, 10 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Not everything on Wikipedia is credible. The drawing will tell you it was 5,4 feet high. I probably made a mistake, 0.65m is looks better. I will check it. Taksen (talk) 10:29, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Confusion
Bonjour, Cet article crée de nombreuses confusions : 1° Le "physionotrace" inventé par Quenedey permet de faire des portraits de profil mais aussi de trois-quart, de face et même en pied (voir publicités de l'époque). 2° Au début, le portrait gravé n'était pas une aquatinte mais une gravure à l'eau-forte (etching). 3° Cet article n'évoque pas Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Memin qui a réalisé des centaines de portraits aux États-Unis avec la machine inventée par Chrétien dont George Washington ou Thomas Jefferson... (cf. Saint Mémin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America" par Ellen G. Miles publié en 1994 par National Portrait Gallery et Smithsonian Institution Press 4° Cet article crée la confusion entre les silhouettes (ombre portée) et les portraits issus de l'utilisation du physionotrace inventé par Chrétien. 5° La machine inventée par Hawkins semble ne permettre que des silhouettes... Bien cordialement, MAS Estampes (talk) 10:01, 5 October 2022 (UTC)