Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Daniel Ludlow is a 1798 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting shows the upper half of a man's body in profile. He's looking straight ahead, and his face is serious. The artist used a lot of detail to create this portrait. The portrait is an engraving, which is a technique where the artist scratches a design onto a metal plate. This method allows for very fine lines and details, like the lines on the man's face. To learn more about this kind of artwork, look into the technique of engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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