Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1808
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Minor III is a 1808 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a man with a serious face. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist made this picture using a special process, which is interesting because it was a common way to make portraits back then. The man in the picture, John Minor III, was a lawyer and politician. This tells us that the artist was likely making portraits of important people. You can learn more about this kind of art by looking into the technique: engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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