Six faces expressing human passions: (clockwise from top left) terror, despair, compassion, horror, hatred or jealousy, and weeping. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.

  • Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690.
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34282i
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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; each image approx. 7 x 6 cm

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Passions. Terror or fright. Despair. Weeping. Compassion. Hatred or jealousy. Horror.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34282i

Reproduction note

Designs originally from Le Brun's 'Conférence de M. Le Brun sur l'expression générale et particulière' (Paris: E. Picard, 1698), published in its most copied version in 1727 by J. Audran with engravings by himself

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