Peter Stephen DuPonceau, c. 1800

Not on View

Medium

engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 5.56 × 5.56 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
plate: 6.35 × 6.35 cm (2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)

sheet: 18.57 × 13.97 cm (7 5/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 289

Accession Number

2015.19.2475

Artists / Makers

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (artist) French, 1770 - 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philada.; upper right in graphite by unknown hand: Presented to the Gallery by / Mr. F. J. Duer of Phila. / (see letter) May 16, 1884; lower right in graphite by unknown hand: Peter S Duponceau

Provenance

Mr. F. J. Duer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1884; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 295, no. 289.