Anthony Chardon
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Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
S/NPG.74.39.6.42
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Art Historical Context
**Anthony Chardon** (1800) is a striking profile portrait print by Charles Balthazar Févret de Saint-Mémin, a French who fled the Revolution and settled in America. Created at the turn of the century, this work captures Anthony Chardon, a prominent manufacturer and merchant, in Saint-Mémin's signature. Housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's National Portrait Gallery (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon), it exemplifies 19th-century portraiture that democratized fine art for the emerging American elite. Saint-Mémin revolutionized portrait making with his physiognotrace—a mechanical devic...