Conference de Monsieur Le Brun, premier peintre du roy de France ... sur l'expression generale et particuliere : enriche de figures, suivant l'edition d'Amsterdam de l'année 1713 = Conferenza del signor Le Brun, primo pittore del re di Francia ... sopra l'espressione generale e particolare delle passioni : con le sue figure, tradotta in italiano
Charles Le Brun's 1751 Verona edition of his lectures on the expression of the passions, printed in French and Italian for art students and painters. The pictures are engraved studies of human heads showing emotions such as ecstasy and grief, with ornamental headpieces between sections. A designer could take from them a clear vocabulary of facial expression, drawn with simple hatched line and no shading beyond it.
