Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Samuel Sitgreaves is a 1798 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
Samuel Sitgreaves stares straight at you. He wears a dark coat over a white stock. His face sits in sharp light against a plain background. This is a mezzotint. That’s a printmaking trick using rough metal plates. The artist scraped areas to make shadows fade smoothly. The method was new in America then. It gave prints a soft glow. If you like this style, check 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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