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The image shows a portrait of a man, depicted from the shoulders upwards, in profile facing to the right. The man has a pronounced facial profile with a straight nose and a slight downward tilt of his lips. His hair is styled in a neat and slightly wavy manner, forming structured curls around his ear. He wears a high-collared dark coat over a light-colored cravat, and the background of the portrait consists of a circular dark shading isolating him. The lower part of the image includes a handwritten label identifying the subject as "Doctr Bruse Archibald." There are no visible jewelry or objects held by the person in this image.
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The image shows a portrait of a man, depicted from the shoulders upwards, in profile facing to the right. The man has a pronounced facial profile with a straight nose and a slight downward tilt of his lips. His hair is styled in a neat and slightly wavy manner, forming structured curls around his ear. He wears a high-collared dark coat over a light-colored cravat, and the background of the portrait consists of a circular dark shading isolating him. The lower part of the image includes a handwritten label identifying the subject as "Doctr Bruse Archibald." There are no visible jewelry or objects held by the person in this image.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Archibald Bruce

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): 6.83 × 6.35 cm (2 11/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1584.2.14
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Time span
1776 to 1800
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Series
Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits

Subjects and terms

  • portrait
  • American
  • engraving
  • mezzotint
  • Man
  • 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. 27. Pine St. N. York.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Doctr. Bruce. / Archibald

NGA object ID 204774. 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.