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].

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'.