Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Samuel Chase, Jr. or Thomas Chase
1808
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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
Samuel Chase, Jr. or Thomas Chase
1808
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over black chalk with scraping, Sheet: 149 x 132 mm. (14.9 x 13.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Francis White, from the Collection of Mrs. Miles White, Jr.
Object Number
1973.76.284
Half-length portrait of a man in profile sitting in a chair; landscape background.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Mrs. Miles White, Jr.; Meade Holladay; Hester Ann Chase by descent from the sitter.
Ellen Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, p. 268, no. 155. [note that Miles title and date do not correspond to those in BMA files. The date is difficult to decipher and could conceivably be 1803, 1805 or 1809.]
Inscribed: RECTO: LLQ, ink, 'St. Memin/Fecit/1809'.
Artist
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1769–1851
French, 1770-1852; working in America, 1793-1814
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