Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1801
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Asbury Dickins is a 1801 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows a man’s left-side profile in crisp black and white. The artist used mezzotint, a tricky process where he roughened a metal plate, then smoothed parts to create soft shadows. The face looks calm but the lines catch a quiet strength. This tiny engraving is just five and a half centimeters square. It’s proof that small prints could hold big detail and feeling. You can almost feel the artist’s needle at work. Check out another Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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