Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1800
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Foucher is a 1800 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This small engraving shows a man’s face in profile, carved neatly onto paper. The lines are smooth but sharply detailed. You can see stubble on his jaw and a single mole near his ear. Saint-Mémin made this in 1800 using a copper plate. He pressed ink onto paper to create the image, a trick called mezzotint. The dark background makes the man’s face pop. This style was big in early American portraiture. 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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