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Piety

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  • Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
  • Six faces expressing human passions: profiles and frontal views of admiration, desire and veneration. Pen drawing after C. Le Brun.
  • A male face with head bowed, expressing veneration. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.
  • The love of divinity and wisdom and its effects on shameful love and indulgence. Engraving after Pietro da Cortona.
  • A virtuous Athenian woman pouring incense on to a flaming tripod. Engraving by J.J. Flipart after J.M. Vien.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Two faces expressing veneration and rapture. Etching, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.

    Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690. | Reference: 32364i
    • Ephemera

    The happy man : and the true gentleman.

    | Date: [between 1790 and 1799?]
    • Ephemera

    Fifty-six of the wants of the children of Zion : all supplied from the fountain head.

    | Date: [approximately 1802?]
    • Books

    Preparing for death, remembering the dead / Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Øygarden Flæten (eds.).

    | Date: [2015]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The Virgin Mary with Christ as an infant with Joseph and Anne, in the background the archangel Gabriel holding a lily. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 17571i
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