John Carlyle Herbert, 1807

Not on View

Medium

charcoal and pastel on pink prepared paper

Dimensions

sheet: 53.66 × 40.48 cm (21 1/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Thomas A. Herbert and Robert Beverley Herbert in memory of their father, Edward Herbert, and Guy F. Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, and R. Beverley Herbert, Sr.)

Accession Number

2014.136.204

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

John Carlye Herbert, Washington, DC; William P. Herbert (the sitter's grandson); R. Beverly Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, Guy F. Herbert, and Edward Herbert (the sitter's great-grandsons), 1907; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1964; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Herbert, R. Beverly

Exhibition History

1941: Exhibition of the Works of Saint-Mémin, Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 1941, no. 11

1978: Faces of Alexandria, 1749-1849, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, 1978

1994: Federal Profiles: Saint-Mémin in America, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1994-1995, no. 36

Bibliography

1921: Bolton, Theodore. "Saint-Mémin's Crayon Portraits." Art in America 9, no. 1 (December 1920): p. 166, no. 8 (as Robert Beverly Herbert).

1923: Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons. New York: F.F. Sherman, 1923, p. 66, no. 24 (as Robert Beverly Herbert).

1942: Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 173.

1964: Art Quarterly 27 (1964): p. 387.

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 2, no. 11.

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 318, no. 406.