Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
George Clinton is a 1797 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a dark oval print of a man’s head and shoulders. The paper is warm brown with a white border. His face is smooth with sharp shadows under his cheekbones. This is a mezzotint engraving from 1797. Mezzotint uses tiny pits in the metal plate to hold ink. It lets artists print rich, velvety blacks like this one. If you like this tight focus on faces, look up Rembrandt’s etchings next.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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