Peter Stephen DuPonceau
c. 1800
Artist, French, 1770 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 5.56 × 5.56 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1584.54.15
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miles 1994, no. 289
Associated Artworks
See all 14 artworks
Unidentified Man
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
Unidentified Man
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
Elias Boudinot
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, Dijon, France; Léon Victor Raoul Leclerc, Vicomte de Juigné (the artist's nephew), Dijon, France, 1852; (Henry Stevens, London, England, c. 1859); William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC, c. 1874; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1875; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 295, no. 289.
Inscriptions
lower center mount in graphite by unknown hand: Peter S. DuPonceau, / [undeciphered] / of Phila, [undeciphered] May 12/84.
Wikidata ID
Q77262653