Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin

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Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin
1770-1852
Portrait of DeWitt Clinton
1796
Pen and black ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor.
2019.52:1
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Framed together with 2019.52:2.
Saint-Mémin produced these portraits of the emerging politician DeWitt Clinton and his wife while the artist was living in New York, having fled France during the Revolution. In 1796-97 he was working closely with Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit to learn the art of portrait making. The drawings likely commemorate DeWitt Clinton's marriage to Maria Franklin in 1796.

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Valdenuit, Thomas Bluget de, 1763-1846.

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Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de
School: 
French
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
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Drawings and Prints