Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Charles Grove is a 1798 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a small, sharp engraving of a man’s head in profile. His collar is stiff. The lines are clean and deep. This isn’t a quick sketch. The artist used a tool to carve tiny parallel lines into a metal plate. Ink fills the grooves, then presses onto paper. Look up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de. He made this kind of print all over America.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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