Edmund Wilcox Rootes
1808
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
2015.19.1584.43.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miles 1994, no. 714
Associated Artworks
See all 15 artworks
Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits, Group 43
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1807
John Wickham
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1808
John Bell
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1808
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
1862
Dexter, Elias. The St. Memin Collection of Portraits; Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans. Elias Dexter: New York, 1862, no. 585.
1940
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits by Favret de Saint Memin, 1770-1852. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1940, p. 16.
1942
Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 204.
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 383, no. 714.
Inscriptions
lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand on adhered label: Edmund W. Rootes.
Wikidata ID
Q77262276