Unidentified Female Silhouette
1797
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): 6.67 × 4.29 cm (2 5/8 × 1 11/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.99 × 6.35 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1584.56.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miles 1994, no. 884
Associated Artworks
See all 8 artworks
Unidentified Female Silhouette
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797

Joseph Carrington Cabell
Jean Godefroy
1799

Unidentified Male Silhouette
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1797
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. 761.
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 416, no. 884.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: St. M. &. Vt. No. 27. Pine St. N.Y.
Wikidata ID
Q77262685