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Examples
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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin used a physiognotrace to produce hundreds of portraits, including those of John
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By 1803, Rembrandt Peale was using an improved physiognotrace at Charles Willson Peale's museum in
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Chrétien had invented the physiognotrace in the 1780s, an instrument designed to trace the subject's profile, producing a life-sized replica which could then be reduced.
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28� Use of the physiognotrace also came into vogue during the early national period.
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