This is a profile portrait of a man in detailed engraving style. The man's upper body, including his head and chest, is depicted in profile facing to the right. He has distinct facial features with a strong nose, defined eyebrows, and a pronounced chin. His hair is styled in tight curls with a ribbon securing it into a tail at the back. He is dressed in formal attire, wearing a dark coat with a high collar and a white cravat neatly tied around his neck. There are no visible accessories or objects in the image aside from his clothing. The background is a simple, dark shaded circular area. The print is drawn and engraved by St. Memin in Philadelphia, and the name "Bailey Bartlett" is inscribed beneath the image.
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This is a profile portrait of a man in detailed engraving style. The man's upper body, including his head and chest, is depicted in profile facing to the right. He has distinct facial features with a strong nose, defined eyebrows, and a pronounced chin. His hair is styled in tight curls with a ribbon securing it into a tail at the back. He is dressed in formal attire, wearing a dark coat with a high collar and a white cravat neatly tied around his neck. There are no visible accessories or objects in the image aside from his clothing. The background is a simple, dark shaded circular area. The print is drawn and engraved by St. Memin in Philadelphia, and the name "Bailey Bartlett" is inscribed beneath the image.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Bailey Bartlett

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1800
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
2015.19.1584.16.1
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
  • 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: Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadela.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Bailey Bartlett.

NGA object ID 214588. 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.