Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1809
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Benjamin Elliott is a 1809 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This portrait shows a man with a serious face. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist used a lot of detail to draw his subject. The mezzotint and engraving techniques used here are interesting. They allowed the artist to create a detailed, high-contrast image. This was a common way to make portraits back then. You can learn more about this technique by looking up the artist who created it, 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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