James Asheton Bayard

1800

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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

James Asheton Bayard

1800

Physical Qualities Black and white chalks with stumping over graphite, Sheet: 546 x 381 mm. (54.6 x 38.1 cm.)

Credit Line Bequest of Ellen Howard Bayard

Object Number 1939.182

Portrait of a man in profile, with hair pulled back in a braid, facing left.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1939; Ellen Howard Bayard by descent from the sitter.

John Thomas Flexner and Linda Bantel Samter, Amon Carter, Fort Worth, Texas, 'Faces of Liberty: Founders of the United States', Dec. 23, 1975 - Feb. 8, 1976, p. 196-97, plate no. 65 [mistakenly identified as Bassett, 1939.181].

Margaret Christman, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 'The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791', March 2 - July 23, 1989, pp. 226-228. [Mistakenly identified in this exhibition as Bassett, 1939.181.]

Margaret Christman, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 'The Spirit of Party: Hamilton and Jefferson at Odds', Sept. 11, 1992 - Feb. 15, 1993, p. 49 and 58, ill. p. 49.

Ellen Miles, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 'Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America', 1994, pp. 245, no. 46.

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

James Charleton, et al., Framers of the Constitution, Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1986, p. 124-25, 248. (Incorrectly identified as Bassett.)

Elias Dexter, St. Mémin Collection of Portraits, New York, 1862, no. 429.

Inscribed: None.