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The image is a profile portrait showing the upper body of a man facing to the right. The man has a straight nose, detailed eyes, slightly pursed lips, short curly hair styled into a powdered wig, and he wears formal attire with a high-collared coat and a white cravat. The portrait is within an oval frame with a textured background, and a handwritten inscription below reads "Chs Ogden" and "Nathaniel Ogden."
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The image is a profile portrait showing the upper body of a man facing to the right. The man has a straight nose, detailed eyes, slightly pursed lips, short curly hair styled into a powdered wig, and he wears formal attire with a high-collared coat and a white cravat. The portrait is within an oval frame with a textured background, and a handwritten inscription below reads "Chs Ogden" and "Nathaniel Ogden."

National Gallery of Art · Print

Abraham Ogden, Jr.

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1798
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 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1584.7.13
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 No. 27 Pine St. N. York; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Chs. Ogden. / Nathaniel Ogden.

NGA object ID 214448. 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.