Alexander Contée Hanson, Jr. (1786-1819)

1802

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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Alexander Contée Hanson, Jr. (1786-1819)

1802

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

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].

Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia, 'Exhibition of the Works of Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin', 1941.

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 'Saint-Mémin', Feb. - March 1951, p. 11, no. 9c. The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting in Maryland', May 11- June 17, 1945, p. 36, no. 70, ill. p. 36.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 'Bicentennial Exhibition', Dec. 23, 1975 - Feb. 8, 1976.

Sona Johnston, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'American Painting of the Revolutionary Period', April 20 - June 20, 1976, in Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Bicentennial, edited by John B. Boles, p. 83, no. 50, ill. p. 83.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'As Artists See Us: Drawings from the Museum Collection', May 14 - Aug. 11, 1991.

Homewood House Museum, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 'Period Profiles and Paintings: Art in Neoclassical Baltimore', Nov. 7-Dec. 12, 1995.

Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.

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.

Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, graphite, '180[?]'. VERSO: LL, brown ink, 'The portrait of / Alexander Contee Hanson'.