Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1805
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Pierre Sauvé is a 1805 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a dark oval portrait of a man in a white cravat and dark coat. His face is lit from the left. The background is plain. This is a mezzotint, a print made by roughening a metal plate. The artist burnished the plate after roughening to create softer tones. It takes skill to get the details this smooth. Look up Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de next.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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