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Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

David Holmes, 1799

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series Title

Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits

Medium

mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

Dimensions

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

sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 420

Accession Number

2015.19.1584.13.4

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 Philadela.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: David Holmes.

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson
Leclerc, Léon Victor Raoul
Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de
Stevens, Henry Jr.

Bibliography

1862: Dexter, Elias. The St. Memin Collection of Portraits; Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans. Elias Dexter: New York, 1862, no. 458.

1940: Catalogue of Engraved Portraits by Favret de Saint Memin, 1770-1852. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1940, p. 13.

1942: Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 175.

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, pp. 320-321, no. 420.