Profile Portrait, Blake
Medium
Mezzotint and engraving, with stipple, on ivory wove chine, laid down on off-white wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image: 5.5 × 5.6 cm (2 3/16 × 2 1/4 in.); Primary support: 6.7 × 6.3 cm (2 11/16 × 2 1/2 in.); Secondary support: 20.6 × 14.8 cm (8 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
mezzotint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117790
About the Artist
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin · 1770–1852
**Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin** (1770–1852) was born on March 12 in Dijon, France, into a prominent noble family of art collectors and bibliophiles. His father, Bénigne-Charles Févret de Saint-Mémin, served as a conseiller au Parlement de Bourgogne, while his mother, Victoire-Marie de Motmans, hailed from a creole family in Saint-Domingue. Educated at the École Militaire in Pari...