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The image is a portrait of a man from the chest up, facing right in a profile position. The man has a refined face with a prominent nose and is wearing his hair styled in the typical 18th-century fashion. He wears a high-collared jacket with buttons and a cravat around his neck. The background of the portrait is a circular, dark tone that contrasts with the lighter tones of the man’s face and clothing. The image is surrounded by a plain beige mat, with the handwritten name "Alexander James Dallas" below the circular portrait.
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The image is a portrait of a man from the chest up, facing right in a profile position. The man has a refined face with a prominent nose and is wearing his hair styled in the typical 18th-century fashion. He wears a high-collared jacket with buttons and a cravat around his neck. The background of the portrait is a circular, dark tone that contrasts with the lighter tones of the man’s face and clothing. The image is surrounded by a plain beige mat, with the handwritten name "Alexander James Dallas" below the circular portrait.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Alexander James Dallas

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1801-1803
Medium
mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 5.72 × 5.72 cm (2 1/4 × 2 1/4 in.) sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.67 × 6.19 cm (2 5/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.1584.19.11
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
Time span
1801 to 1825
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 mount in black ink by unknown hand: Alexander James Dallas.

NGA object ID 214652. 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.