Étonnement avec frayeur, Compassion, Mouvement Violent, from "Caractèr

Three studies of facial expression in etched line on pale paper: two bald men with wide staring eyes and gaping or grimacing mouths flank a three-quarter profile head of a man with furrowed brow looking downward. Captions above and below name each expression, and the plate is numbered 17 in the lower right corner.

Look closer: The plate is numbered 17 in small figures in the lower right corner.

Artist

Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune

Date

1695–1720

Medium

Etching

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2085 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953