Le Colère mêlée de crainte (from Caractères des passions, gravés sur les desseins de l'illustre Monsieur le Brun)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 15/16 × 5 13/16 in. (7.5 × 14.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953
Accession Number
53.600.2890
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Art Historical Context
In the late 17th to early 18th century, French artist Charles Le Brun, premier painter to Louis XIV and director of Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, pioneered studies of human passions through facial expressions. His influential drawings on this theme were masterfully etched by Sébastien Le Clerc Younger in the series *Caractères des passions, gravés sur les desse de l'illustre le Brun* (c. 1695–1720). *Le Colère mêlée de crainte* (Anger Mixed with Fear) captures a man's intense head in profile, embodying the turbulent blend of fury and apprehension that Le Brun dissected in lectur...
About the Artist
Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune|Charles Le Brun (French|French) · 1676 |1619 –1763 |1690
French, Paris 1676–1763 Gobelins|French, Paris 1619–1690 Paris