Catherine Keteltas Livingston

1797-1798

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Artist, French, 1770 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 2.22 × 1.59 cm (7/8 × 5/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed to plate): 3.97 × 3.02 cm (1 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1584.50.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Miles 1994, no. 513

Associated Artworks

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George Washington

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1795

Daniel Carmick

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1798

Hannah Breck

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

1799


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

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. 15.

1940

  • Catalogue of Engraved Portraits by Favret de Saint Memin, 1770-1852. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1940, p. 14.

1994

  • Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 341, no. 513.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: St. Memin delt. et. sculpt.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Mrs. Brokholst. / Livingston.

Wikidata ID

Q77262527


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