Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1802
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Robert Heysham is a 1802 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a sharp portrait. A man in a dark coat stares straight ahead, his face lit by a single light source. Mezzotint was big in the 1800s for making prints look almost like paintings. This print uses tiny lines to build up shadows and smooth skin tones. If you like this, check out 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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