A Versailles painter drew people with the faces of animals

Charles le Brun matched human faces to animal heads in a 1671 lecture, printed in 1806 with 37 plates.

Charles le Brun — Charles le Brun, the relation of the human face to that of the eagle, Wellcome Collection / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Charles le Brun (1619–90) drew a set of human heads that match the heads of animals: an ox, a fox, an eagle, a raven, a parrot, and a pig. Louis XIV put him in charge of the decoration of Versailles in 1669, and the …