Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1808
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
James Breckinridge is a 1808 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This portrait shows a man in a dark coat, white shirt, and ruffled cravat. He's set against a plain dark background. The details in his face and clothes are very fine. The precision of this portrait is notable, achieved through a technique called engraving, which involves carving a design into a metal plate, and you can see more examples of this technique at the museum: 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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