Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
James Iredell is a 1798 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny print shows James Iredell, a Supreme Court justice, against a plain background. The artist used a technique called mezzotint. It makes soft shadows by roughening the metal plate then smoothing parts to hold ink. Mezzotint feels rare today. It was big in the late 1700s for portraits. This one is just 5.6 cm square but keeps sharp details. Try looking up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de next.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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