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The image shows a profile portrait of a man in a seated position, facing to the left. He has a prominent nose, small lips, and short curly hair tied at the back. He is wearing a dark high-collared jacket and a white cravat. The background is simple, with the man set against a circular dark area. At the bottom, there is some partially visible handwritten text.
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The image shows a profile portrait of a man in a seated position, facing to the left. He has a prominent nose, small lips, and short curly hair tied at the back. He is wearing a dark high-collared jacket and a white cravat. The background is simple, with the man set against a circular dark area. At the bottom, there is some partially visible handwritten text.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Abraham Hart

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1796
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
2015.19.1584.1.8
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
  • 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: Abm. Hart.

NGA object ID 213873. 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.