The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Horror

Charles Le Brun, 1727

Expressions of the Soul's Passions, Represented in Several Engraved Heads, based on drawings by the late Mr. Le Brun, pub'd. by J. Audran (Paris), plate 16
Printed monograph, 4 pages of captions and engraved plates, 45 cm.
BnF, Arsenal Library, STORAGE FOL-S-286
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
“An object despised sometimes causes horror, and then the eye-brow knits, and sinks a great deal more. The eye-ball, placed at the bottom of the eye, is half covered by the lower eye-lid; the mouth is half open, but closer in the middle than the sides; which being drawn back, makes wrinkles in the cheeks; the face grows pale, and the eyes become livid; the muscles and the veins are marked.”