Joy with Tranquility (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passion
A hand-colored etching shows a stout, curly-haired man in a brown coat and white cravat, his cheeks flushed, passing a folded letter to a wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked boy in a blue jacket who gazes up at him. The exaggerated faces and flat tinted washes mark it as a satirical caricature of an emotion, in the manner of Le Brun's passions series.
Look closer: The title 'Joy with Tranquility' and the number 'No 3' are printed along the top border.
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson
- Date
- January 21, 1800
- Medium
- Hand-colored etching, printed in brown ink
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 2599 × 3646 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1800).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959