Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1807
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Louis Hue Girardin is a 1807 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny portrait shows a man in a dark coat, facing left. The light hits his face just enough to see his calm expression. The background stays plain and dark. Mezzotint was tricky back then. Tiny holes in the metal plate made the shadows smooth. Each print could look a little different. Check out how Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de did the cross-hatching in the collar.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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