Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1801
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Trigant, Jr. is a 1801 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a young man in a neat coat. His face is calm, almost blank. The artist cut this print with fine lines called mezzotint. It’s dark but not harsh—soft shadows wrap around him. Mezzotint was new in America then. Saint-Mémin learned it in Europe and brought it here. The paper looks warm, like old newsprint. See how the light sits on his collar? That’s cross-hatching at work. Look up 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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