Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Gerard G. Beekman, Jr. is a 1797 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny print shows Gerard G. Beekman Jr. in a dark coat, looking straight at you. The artist used fine cross-hatching to make his face glow against the paper. You can almost feel the soft light on his cheek. Mezzotint lets artists shade with tiny pits in the metal plate. That gives the darkest blacks and smoothest lights. Beekman’s portrait feels almost three-dimensional. Look up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de to see how he made soft edges with a rocked tool.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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