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The image is a portrait of a man from the chest up. The man is turned to his left, facing sideways. He has curly hair styled backward with a queue tied at the nape. His expression is neutral with a prominent nose. He is wearing a dark, formal high-collared coat with a button and a white cravat around his neck, suggesting an 18th or early 19th-century style. The background is an oval-shaped grayscale. There is handwriting below the image that reads "Dr. Barton Benjamin Smith."
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The image is a portrait of a man from the chest up. The man is turned to his left, facing sideways. He has curly hair styled backward with a queue tied at the nape. His expression is neutral with a prominent nose. He is wearing a dark, formal high-collared coat with a button and a white cravat around his neck, suggesting an 18th or early 19th-century style. The background is an oval-shaped grayscale. There is handwriting below the image that reads "Dr. Barton Benjamin Smith."

National Gallery of Art · Print

Benjamin Smith Barton

Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin

Date
1802
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
2015.19.1584.24.8
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
  • Doctor
  • 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: Dr. Barton. / Benjamin.; lower center mount in graphite by unknown hand: Smith.

NGA object ID 214729. 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.