The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Fear

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 17
Printed monograph, 4 pages of captions and engraved plates, 45 cm.
BnF, Arsenal Library, STORAGE FOL-S-286
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
“The violence of this Passion alters all the parts of the face; the eye-brow rises in the middle; its muscles are marked, swelled, pressed one against the other, and sunk towards the nose, which draws up as well as the nostrils; the eyes are very open; the upper eye-lid is hid under the eye-brow; the white of the eye is encompassed with red; the eye-ball fixes toward the lower part of the eye; the lower part of the eyelid swells and becomes livid; the muscles of the nose and cheeks swell, and these last terminate in a point toward the sides of the nostrils; the mouth is very open, and its corners very apparent; the muscles and veins of the neck stretched; the hair stands on end; the colour of the face, that is the end of the nose, the lips, the ear, and round the eyes is pale and livid, and all ought to be strongly marked.”