Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1799
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Charles Taylor is a 1799 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a small engraving from 1799. It shows a man’s face in profile, turned slightly to the left. His coat has fine buttons and a high collar. The paper looks old but is in good shape. The artist used a special printmaking trick called mezzotint. Mezzotint makes rich, velvety blacks by roughening a metal plate with tiny dots. This print feels smooth but the shadows look deep. Try looking up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de next.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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