William Stevenson Barney
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
William Stevenson Barney is a 1798 ink by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
You see a small, circular portrait of a man with white hair in a ponytail. He's wearing formal clothes from the late 1700s. The man in the portrait is William Stevenson Barney, and what's interesting is that the artist used a lot of detail to show his fancy clothes and hairstyle. The artist paid close attention to Barney's facial expression and clothing. This suggests that the artist wanted to show Barney's personality and status. You can learn more about this type of artwork by looking into the technique: engraving.
