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.
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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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