Physiognomy Collection

Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l etude du " portrait parle", ca. 1909

Embarcadère du chemin de Bruxelles, 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Embarcadere du chemin de Bruxelles, 1852. Vue prise dans un jour de liquidation difficile a la Bourse. (Embarking for Brussels - The scene [at the railway station] on a difficult liquidation day)

Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte St-Martin... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte St-Martin... 1852. Physionomies de spectateurs de la Porte-St.-Martin pendant une represantation de Richard III

Andromaque, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Andromaque, 1851. "J'ai vu trancher les jours de ma famille entiere" "Et mon epoux traine sur la poussiere!". "I saw the lives of my entire family cut short"

Mon char, mes javelots...(Phèdre), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Mon char, mes javelots...(Phedre), 1841. My chariot, my javelins...From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy); Periodical: Le Charivari, 15 November 1841

Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadère.. 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadere.. 1852. Le Chemin de fer de Lyon. Embarcadere special des nourrices de Bourgogne. (The railway station at Lyon. Special platform for Burgundy wet-nurses)

Le jour n'est pas plus pur.. 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le jour n'est pas plus pur.. 1841. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart. Series: Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy); Periodical

Sortez!...(Bajazet), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Sortez!...(Bajazet), 1841. Go away! From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Je pars plus amoureux que...jamais... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je pars plus amoureux que...jamais... 1841. I leave more in love than...ever. From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Pour qui sont ces Serpents... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Pour qui sont ces Serpents... 1841. Who are these Snakes for? From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur. (Phedre), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur. (Phedre), 1841. The day is not purer than the depths of my heart

Oedipe, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Oedipe, 1851. Moi-meme en le percant, je sentis dans mon ame, Tout vainqueur que j'etais...vous fremissez, madame!'

Hamlet, 1851. Creator: Honore Daumier
Hamlet, 1851. "Prenez cette urne et jurez-moi sur elle..."Non ta mere, mon fils, ne fut point criminelle..."L'osez-vous, je vous crois!"

Je suis jeune, il est vrai, mais aux âmes bien neés...(Le Cid), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je suis jeune, il est vrai, mais aux ames bien nees. La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des annees! (Le Cid), 1841. I am young, it is true, but with a well-born soul

Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours (Bajaset), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Nourri dans le serail, j'en connais les detours (Bajaset), 1841. Nourished in the seraglio, I know the twists and turns

Rodrigue as-tu du coeur? (Le Cid), 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Rodrigue as-tu du coeur? (Le Cid), 1841. Don Diego asks his son Rodrigo do you have heart?'. From Physionomies tragico-classiques (Physiognomy of the Characters of Classical Tragedy)

Train de plaisir de Paris à St-Germain... 1852. Creator: Honore Daumier
Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain... 1852. Train de plaisir de Paris a St-Germain - Wagon de deuxieme classe. Excursion train from Paris to St-Germain: Second class carriage

Un échantillon de ce qu'on appèle quelquefois les Beaux de Paris, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Un echantillon de ce qu'on appele quelquefois les Beaux de Paris, 19th century. Parisians. A specimen of what one might call the handsome men of Paris

Les vendanges a Argenteuil, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Les vendanges a Argenteuil, 19th century. English visitors at the grape harvest, looking at the behinds of the pickers and speaking heavily-accented French

Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Two Old Women (verso), n.d. Creator: Thomas Patch
Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Two Old Women (verso), n.d

Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s) Creator: Louis Toussaint
Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s)

Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s) Creator: Louis Toussaint
Man's head with fur hat, undated. (c1860s)

John Caspar Lavater, 1787 / 1801. Creator: William Blake
John Caspar Lavater, 1787/1801

La Veneration, Le Ravissement, Extreme Douleur corporelle (from Caractè
La Veneration, Le Ravissement, Extreme Douleur corporelle (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Mouvement de douleur, Douleur aigue de corps et d Esprit, Mouvement compose (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Le Colere (from Caracteres des passions, gravé
Le Colere (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Le Pleurer and mouvement compose(from Caracteres des passions
Le Pleurer and mouvement compose (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Mouvement Violent, Mouvement violent ou le coeur seroidit, La Jalousie (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Frontispiece of Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1883

Lavater, (1741-1801), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Lavater, (1741-1801), 1830. Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian. From " Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard

Le Brun, (1619-1690), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Le Brun, (1619-1690), 1830. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) French painter, physiognomist, art theorist and court painter to Louis XIV. From " Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard

Frontispiece and Titlepage of The Conjurors Magazine, 1792
Frontispiece and Titlepage of The Conjurors Magazine, pub. 1792 (b/w photo)

Anatomy of a horse, 19th century. Artist: Archibald Webb
Anatomy of a horse, 19th century

The phiz and character of an Alexandrine hyper-critch and comentator, 1728. His Holiness [The Pope, as a monkey] and his Prime Minister [a donkey]

Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss physiognomist and theologian, early 19th century. Physiognomy is the art of reading psychological traits from physical characteristics

Synopsis of the diviners arts, 1617-1619. Chiromancy, prophecy, mnemonics, physiognomy, pyramidology, geomancy, astrology, the seven sources of human knowledge. From Utriusque cosmi

Bust of the Macedonian General Alexander the Great. Artist: Lysippos
Bust of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), copying the physiognomy of Alexander as portrayed by Lysipuus c. 330 BC, currently in the Louvres collection

Celtic gold mounts, Birkenfeld, Germany, 5th - 4th century BC

Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing a patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792. Artist: Henry Fuseli
Attempt to exorcise evil spirits possessing a patient in San Spirito Hospital, Rome, 1792. Illustration based on Johann Kaspar Lavaters description, from his Essays on Physiognomy. (London, 1792)

Comparison of Germanic and African skulls, early 19th century. 1: Germanic skull with all the marks of a European head. 2: African skull

l Amour simple, Abattement, Le Desir (from Caracteres des passions, graves sur les desseins de l illustre Monsieur le Brun), 1695-1720

Essais d'autographie/ Essai de physiognomie, 1842/1845. Creators: Rodolphe Topffer, Unknown
Essais d'autographie/ Essai de physiognomie, 1842/1845

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