Théophile Cazanove
1799
Artist, French, 1770 - 1852
Artwork overview
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Medium
mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 5.56 × 5.56 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.83 × 6.19 cm (2 11/16 × 2 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1584.9.11
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miles 1994, no. 149
Associated Artworks
See all 15 artworks
Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits, Group 9
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
Mrs. Cunnyngham
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
Eliza Hewson
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
1798
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
1940
Catalogue of Engraved Portraits by Favret de Saint Memin, 1770-1852. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1940, p. 11.
1994
Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, pp. 266-267, no. 149.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadela.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Cazanove.
Wikidata ID
Q77015866