Madonna della seggiola

c. 1795

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 4.45 × 4.45 cm (1 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)
    plate: 6.99 × 6.51 cm (2 3/4 × 2 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.05 × 8.41 cm (3 9/16 × 3 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1584.57.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 987

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

1994

  • Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 439, no. 987.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Raphael pinxt.; lower right in plate: St. Memin sculpt.

Wikidata ID

Q77262711


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