Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1799
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
William Rodman is a 1799 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This portrait shows a man with a serious face. He's dressed in old-fashioned clothes. The artist used a special process to create the portrait, which gives it a lot of detail and texture. The portrait is interesting because it was made using a mix of mezzotint and engraving. This was a common technique back then, but it's still impressive to see how well it works. You can learn more about this technique by looking up the work of artist: 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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