Samuel Chase, Jr. or Thomas Chase

1808

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Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Samuel Chase, Jr. or Thomas Chase

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

Samuel Chase, Jr. or Thomas Chase

1808

Physical Qualities Watercolor over black chalk with scraping, Sheet: 149 x 132 mm. (14.9 x 13.2 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Francis White, from the Collection of Mrs. Miles White, Jr.

Object Number 1973.76.284

Half-length portrait of a man in profile sitting in a chair; landscape background.

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1973; Mrs. Miles White, Jr.; Meade Holladay; Hester Ann Chase by descent from the sitter.

Homewood House Museum, Baltimore, 'Period Profiles and Paintings: Art in Neoclassical Baltimore', Nov. 7-Dec. 12, 1995.
Ellen Miles, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 'Saint-Memin: Federal Portraits in America 1793-1814', Dec. 2, 1994-May 21, 1995.
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The White Collection', March 19-June 2, 1974.

Ellen Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994, p. 268, no. 155. [note that Miles title and date do not correspond to those in BMA files. The date is difficult to decipher and could conceivably be 1803, 1805 or 1809.]

Inscribed: RECTO: LLQ, ink, 'St. Memin/Fecit/1809'.