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  • Three faces: expressing desire (top) and peaceful joy (bottom left), and laughing (bottom right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) attention, admiration with astonishment, veneration, simple bodily pain, joy with tranquility, and admiration. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • Hands in various gestures, including prayer and benediction. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • The head of an ox and the head of an ox-like man: three figures of each, showing their physiognomical relations. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two heads, both in states of fear. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Saint Teresa of Avila: she kneels in her convent cell as the Holy Ghost shines on her. Line engraving after C. Lebrun.
  • The head of an ox and the head of an ox-like man: three figures of each, showing their physiognomical relations. Etching, c. 1820, after C. Le Brun.
  • Hands and feet in outline. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • Bowles's Passions of the soul / represented in several heads; engraved in the manner of drawings in chalk, from the designs of ... M. le Brun.
  • A face expressing hatred and jealousy (left) and a face expressing despair (right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • The face of an angry man. Drawing, 18th century (?), after C. Le Brun.
  • Lower parts of the face: outlines. Engraving after C. Le Brun.
  • A stick insect surrounded by parts of its bodily structure. Etching by Lebrun after Blanchard.
  • Two insects of the order orthoptera surrounded by parts of their bodily structure. Etching by Lebrun after Blanchard.
  • Ten faces expressing the human passions. Engraving by Barlow after C. Le Brun.
  • A wealthy young man having his hair dressed by an attendant; another attendant holds a mirror; to the left a second man is having his hair dressed by a female attendant. Reproduction of an engraving by Mazot after Le Brun.
  • Eight heads showing human passions. Etching by Taylor, 1788, after C. Le Brun.
  • Ten faces expressing the human passions. Engraving by Barlow after C. Le Brun.
  • An angel rescues Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness. Etching by E. Rooker after C. Le Brun.
  • Outlines of faces making mixed and contrary muscular movements (left) and sadness and dejection (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A female face expressing admiration. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • The face of a man expressing simple bodily pain. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces showing joy and laughter. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A frontal outline and a profile of faces expressing anger. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A laughing face. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Manoah and his wife pray to an angel which emerges from the flame of their altar. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after C. Le Brun.
  • A man's face inclined forward, expressing compassion. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two outlines of faces expressing admiration (left) and astonishment (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces: one expressing extreme despair (left), the other anger mixed with rage (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Outline of a face in extreme pain (left); a woman's head, showing admiration. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.