Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1804
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
William Gwynn is a 1804 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This small print shows a man in profile with neat hair and a coat. His face is softly lit, like a photograph before cameras existed. The artist used tiny dots and lines to create shades of gray. Mezzotint was popular in the early 1800s for making prints look almost like paintings. This tiny piece proves Saint-Mémin could make a whole face with just a few marks. Check out another print by 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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