Title Page: Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions
Medium
Etching, printed in brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 7 5/16 x 8 11/16 in. (18.5 x 22.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.685
Tags
Art Historical Context
Welcome to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, where we encounter *Title Page: Le Brunested, or Caric of the Passions*January 21, 1800). This etching, printed in warm brown ink on a modest sheet measuring 7 5/16 x 8 11/16 inches, was a collaborative effort by publisher Rudolph Ackermann of London, renowned caricaturist Thomas Rowland, and artist George Matroyd Woodward. As the title page for a satirical series, it playfully skewers the serious 17th-century theories of French painter Charles Le Brun, who charted facial expressions to depict human passions like anger...