Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1795
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Esperanza, City Tavern is a 1795 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a plain brick building with a sign that reads “Esperanza City Tavern.” The tavern’s two windows light up a shadowed street corner at dusk. A few thin trees stand in the foreground like afterthoughts. Saint-Mémin often used a soft, grainy style called drypoint to soften etched lines. That gives this print a hazy, early-evening mood you can almost feel. 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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