Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits, Group 22
1776 to 1800
Medium
fifteen engravings with roulette mounted to brown wove paper
Dimensions
image (overall): 23.97 × 34.13 cm (9 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.) mount: 29.21 × 40.64 cm (11 1/2 × 16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Accession Number
2015.19.1584.22.1-15
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...