James Campbell

c. 1804 (printed 1887)

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint and engraving in black with chine collé on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 5.72 × 5.56 cm (2 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
    plate: 6.99 × 6.19 cm (2 3/4 × 2 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 7.62 × 6.83 cm (3 × 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1584.56.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 130

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1887; 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. 361.

1994

  • Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 262, no. 130.

Inscriptions

lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: James Campbell, / of Baltimore. / From the original plate, owned by the Gallery - / See S. Goddart, vol. 1, p. 29.

Wikidata ID

Q77262697


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