Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Meriwether Lewis is a 1805 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a profile portrait of Meriwether Lewis in this head-and-shoulders picture. The artist made this portrait in a special way, using a technique that involved scratching lines on a metal plate. This process was time-consuming and required a lot of skill, which is notable because the artist was French and working in the US at the time. 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.
See the richer artist page
