Connoiseurs looking at Chodowiecki's painting

Four humours/qualities. Fiery and choleric (left), airey and sanguine (second left), moist and melancholic (second right), earthy and phlegmatic (right). Connoiseurs looking at Chodowiecki's painting of Calas's Farewell to his Wife'. Engraving by Reynolds Grignion (d. 1787). From JC Lavater Essays in Physiognomy, London, 1789-98. Translated by Henry Hunter, Physcopathology: Hippocrates (f1 ca. 400 BC) thought behaviours and temperament due to balance or imbalance of the four humours in the body

1787 Airey Behaviours Choleric Earthy Essays Fiery Grignion Hippocrates Humours Imbalance Lavater Melancholic Moist Phlegmatic Physiognomy Sanguine Temperament Translated

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