John Carlyle Herbert
Medium
charcoal and pastel on pink prepared paper
Dimensions
sheet: 53.66 × 40.48 cm (21 1/8 × 15 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Thomas A. Herbert and Robert Beverley Herbert in memory of their father, Edward Herbert, and Guy F. Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, and R. Beverley Herbert, Sr.)
Accession Number
2014.136.204
About the Artist
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
**Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin** Born on March 12, 1770, in Dijon, France, to marquis Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin, a former conseiller au Parlement de Bourgogne, and Victoire-Marie de Motmans, a creole from Port-au-Prince, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin received a military education at the École Militaire in Paris, graduating in 1785. He served as a cad...