Esperanza, Small Building, 1795

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on laid paper mounted to brown wove paper

Dimensions

image: 3.02 × 4.29 cm (1 3/16 × 1 11/16 in.)

sheet: 3.49 × 4.6 cm (1 3/8 × 1 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 980e

Accession Number

2015.19.1584.57.7

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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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

1942: Norfleet, Fillmore. Saint-Mémin in Virginia: Portraits and Biographies. Richmond, Virginia: The Dietz Press, 1942, p. 13.

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, pp. 436-437, no. 980e.