Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
John Winterberry is a 1805 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a man in a dark coat and high collar, his face lit from the side. His mouth is a tight line. The background is plain paper, no details to distract. This is a mezzotint—an old printmaking trick where a metal plate gets roughened, then smoothed with a tool. The artist carved shadows into light, not the other way around. Most prints start dark and get lighter. This one does the opposite. Look it up next: 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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