Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1801
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
de Messimy is a 1801 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This small print shows a man in a high white collar facing left. His face looks calm. Light catches his cheekbone, the rest fades to soft dark. Mezzotint uses a rough metal plate to catch ink. The artist scraped and smoothed the plate to control the shadows. Cross-hatching adds fine lines to soften edges. Mezzotint is rare for portraits back then. Look up 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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