Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1795
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Esperanza, Market 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 busy tavern with people drinking and talking. Three men sit at a table near a window. A woman stands behind the bar, pouring drinks. Saint-Mémin made this using two printmaking methods: etching and engraving. He scratched lines into a metal plate, then inked it to transfer the image to paper. The uneven inking makes the scene feel alive. This work feels like a quiet slice of daily life in early America. Check out more of his portraits at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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