Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Ferguson is a 1797 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a tiny black-and-white portrait from 1797. It shows a man’s head in profile, like a coin stamp. The paper is small enough to fit in your palm. This is a mezzotint, a tricky print method where the artist scrapes metal to make soft shadows. It took real skill to get such smooth light on the face. Look up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de to see more of his profile prints.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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