This image shows an upper-body profile view of a woman identified as Miss Beekman. She is positioned side-on, facing to the right. Her facial features are delicate, with a straight nose and a slight mouth. Her hair is styled in tight, voluminous curls that frame her face and appear to be tied at the back with more curls cascading down, with a decorative hairpiece. She is dressed in elegant, period-appropriate clothing with a high-collared blouse and a shawl or cape draped over her shoulders, featuring intricate lace and ruffled details at the neck. She is adorned with jewelry, including an ornate earring and a beaded necklace. The background is a simple, dark circular field within which her profile is set, and beneath the image, her name, "Miss Beekman," is inscribed on a contrasting lighter background.
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This image shows an upper-body profile view of a woman identified as Miss Beekman. She is positioned side-on, facing to the right. Her facial features are delicate, with a straight nose and a slight mouth. Her hair is styled in tight, voluminous curls that frame her face and appear to be tied at the back with more curls cascading down, with a decorative hairpiece. She is dressed in elegant, period-appropriate clothing with a high-collared blouse and a shawl or cape draped over her shoulders, featuring intricate lace and ruffled details at the neck. She is adorned with jewelry, including an ornate earring and a beaded necklace. The background is a simple, dark circular field within which her profile is set, and beneath the image, her name, "Miss Beekman," is inscribed on a contrasting lighter background.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Ann Beekman

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1796-1797
Medium
mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 5.56 × 5.56 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.35 cm (2 5/8 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1584.2.1
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-W

Portfolio and series

Series
Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • Woman
  • engraving
  • mezzotint
  • Profile
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

Inscription

lower center in plate: St. Memin & Valdenuit No. 11 Fair St. N. York.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Miss Beekman.

NGA object ID 204761. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.