Esperanza, City Tavern

1795

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper mounted to brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

  • Dimensions

    image: 7.14 × 10.95 cm (2 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.57 × 12.38 cm (3 3/8 × 4 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1584.57.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 980b

Associated Artworks

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Esperanza, Small Building

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1795

Landscape with House

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1794

Esperanza, Market

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1795

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

1942

  • Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 13.

1994

  • Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, pp. 436-437, no. 980b.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite by unknown hand: City Tavern.

Wikidata ID

Q77262699

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