Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1807
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
William Poyntell is a 1807 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This is a small black-and-white print of a man in a dark coat. He faces left, eyes calm, mouth closed. The light hits his face just right—soft shadows around his jaw and nose. The artist carved this with tiny lines. That’s called cross-hatching. It makes his skin look smooth and real, even though it’s just ink on paper. Want to see more like this? 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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