Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1809
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Gibbes Barnwell is a 1809 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This portrait shows a man with a serious face. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist made this portrait using a special process that involved engraving and mezzotint, which is a way of creating detailed images by scratching lines into a metal plate, and it's similar to what artist Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de did in other works. You can learn more about this technique by looking into the work of artist 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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