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Saint-Mémin and the neoclassical profile portrait in America /
"During the years from 1796 to 1810, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin (1770-1852) made some of the most memorable images in the history of American portraiture. Because of his unusually precise style and the multitude of sitters he portrayed, his distinctive profile portraits have...
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[Washington D.C.] :
National Portrait Gallery : Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One: Saint-Mémin and the Neoclassical Profile Portrait in America. Saint-Mémin: The Early Years, 1770-1796
- The Neoclassical Profile Portrait in Europe, 1760-1810
- The Profile Portrait in the United States, 1760-1796
- Saint-Mémin: the Portrait Career Begins, New York, 1796-1798
- Philadelphia, 1798-1803
- Baltimore, 1803-1807
- Washington, D.C., 1803-1807
- Richmond and Charleston, 1807-1809
- Civilian and Military Clothing in Saint-Mémin's Portraits
- Last Years in the United States and Return to France, 1809-1852
- Saint-Mémin's Artistic Legacy in the United States
- Part Two, Catalogue of Portraits and Other Works
- Appendix: List of Saint-Mémin's Sitters by City
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.