Unidentified Female Silhouette, 1797

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 5.87 × 3.65 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)

Catalogue Raisonné

Miles 1994, no. 886

Accession Number

2015.19.1584.56.4

Artists / Makers

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin (artist) French, 1770 - 1852

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: St. M. & Vt. No. 27 Pine St N.Y.

Provenance

the artist, Dijon, France; Léon Victor Raoul Leclerc, Vicomte de Juigné (the artist's nephew), Dijon, France, 1852; (Henry Stevens, London, England, c. 1859); William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC, c. 1874; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1875; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Corcoran, William Wilson
Leclerc, Léon Victor Raoul
Saint-Mémin, Charles B. J. Févret de
Stevens, Henry Jr.

Bibliography

1862: Dexter, Elias. The St. Memin Collection of Portraits; Consisting of Seven Hundred and Sixty Medallion Portraits, Principally of Distinguished Americans. Elias Dexter: New York, 1862, no. 760.

1994: Miles, Ellen G. Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1994, p. 416, no. 886.