Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1800
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Philips is a 1800 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a portrait of a man with wavy hair and sideburns. He's shown in a side profile, which was a common way to depict people back then. The artist used a lot of detail to show the texture of the man's hair and clothes. The man in the portrait is not identified, which makes you wonder who he was. He might have been an important person, or just someone the artist knew. You can learn more about portraits like this one by looking at the work of 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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