Unidentified Female Silhouette

1797

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

  • 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

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 884

Associated Artworks

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Saint-Mémin Collection, Group 56

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1797

Unidentified Female Silhouette

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1797

Joseph Carrington Cabell

Jean Godefroy

1799

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

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