Unidentified Male 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): 4.92 × 3.18 cm (1 15/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1584.56.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miles 1994, no. 851
Associated Artworks
See all 9 artworks
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
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 411, no. 851.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Vt. & St. M. No 27 Pine St.
Wikidata ID
Q77262687