Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1804
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Louis Barney is a 1804 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This small print shows a neat man in a coat. His face is softly lit. The artist used a dark ink on smooth paper. The trick here is the shading. Mezzotint makes shadows melt into light. You barely see the lines—just smooth shifts in tone. See how the paper’s edges curl? That’s a sign it’s old. Want to see more like this? Look up 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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