Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Alexander Contée Hanson, Jr. (1786-1819)
1802-1805
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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Alexander Contée Hanson, Jr. (1786-1819)
1802-1805
Physical Qualities
Black and white chalks with stumping over graphite, Sheet: 540 x 406 mm. (54 x 40.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miriam Gilman Todd and Charlotte Abbott Gilman Paul in Memory of their Mother, Eliza Weyl Gilman
Object Number
1934.62.1
Profile bust of a young man.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1934; Miriam Gilman Todd and Charlotte Abbott Gilman Paul; Misses Hanson [grandaughters of the sitter], Elkridge, MD, c. 1851; Josiah Quincy, Boston; Judge Hanson [the sitter's brother].
Mildred C. Kingsbury, 'A St.-Mémin Portrait', Museum Quarterly of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2 (April-June 1937), p. 11-14, ill. p. 13.
Ellen Miles, Saint Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, no. 392.
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, graphite, '180[?]'. VERSO: LL, brown ink, 'The portrait of / Alexander Contee Hanson'.
Artist
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1769–1851
French, 1770-1852; working in America, 1793-1814
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