Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1796
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Van Staphorst is a 1796 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a man's upper torso in profile. It's a small portrait, measuring about 5.56 cm square. The subject is shown from the side, with his face turned away from us. The artist used a lot of detail to create this portrait, which is interesting because it was made using a technique called mezzotint, a type of engraving. To learn more about this kind of artwork, look up the technique: engraving.
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (French pronunciation: ; 1770–1852) was a French portrait painter and museum director.
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