Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits, Group 2
1796-1797
Artist, French, 1770 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
fifteen engravings with roulette mounted to brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (overall): 24.13 × 34.29 cm (9 1/2 × 13 1/2 in.)
mount: 29.21 × 40.64 cm (11 1/2 × 16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1584.2.1-15
Associated Artworks
See all 15 artworks
Jane Macomb Kennedy
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
Maria Franklin Clinton
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
John Allen
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1796
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
Exhibition History
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 16b.
Bibliography
1940
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits by Favret de Saint Memin, 1770-1852. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1940.
Inscriptions
upper right mount in black ink by unknown hand: 2