Federal Profiles

Saint-Mémin in America 1793-1814

Objects in the Exhibition

To follow is a list of objects that were in the National Portrait Gallery St. Memin exhibit on Federal Profiles.

Portraits

Peter Bacot 1788-1836
Black and white chalk, 1808-1809
Gibbes Museum of Art / Carolina Art Association, Charleston, South Carolina;
gift of Louisa Pritchard Hawkins in memory of Julia Myers Pritchard

 

William Barton 1754-1817
Black and white chalk, 1802
Mrs. Frank T. Howard


James Calhoun 1743-1816
Black and white chalk, 1807
Peale Museum, Baltimore City Life Museums, Maryland

 

Samuel Chase, Jr. 1773-1841 or Thomas Chase 1774-1826
Watercolor, 1803
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland;
gift of Mrs. Francis White, from the collection of Mrs. Miles White, Jr.

 

Jean Simon Chaudron 1758-1846
Engraving, 1801
D. McN. Stauffer Collection, Print Collection, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, New York City, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

 

Elizabeth Lonsdale Kay Daingerfield 1777-1845
Watercolor, 1803-1807
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.;
gift of the Richard Dudley Sears family

 

William Richardson Davie 1756-1820
By Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754-1811)
Black and white chalk, 1799-1800
North Carolina Collection, University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

William Richardson Davie 1756-1820
By Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754-1811)
Engraving, 1799 1800
North Carolina Collection, University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Ann Pine Decatur 1752-1812
Black and white chalk, circa 1802
Private collection

 

Stephen Decatur, Sr. 1752-1808
Black and white chalk, 1802
Private collection

 

Delaware Indian, possibly Montgomery Montour lifedates unknown
Black and white chalk, 1807
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

Jean Solomon Fazi lifedates unknown
Engraving, 1800
D. McN. Stauffer Collection, Print Collection, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, New York City, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

 

Charles Graff 1779-1846
By Louis Lemet (circa 1779-1832)
Black and white chalk, 1803-1805
Charles Sterling

 

Charles Graff 1779-1846
By Louis Lemet (circa 1779-1832)
Engraving, 1803 1805
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

 

John Carlyle Herbert 1775-1846
Black and white chalk, 1807
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;
gift of Thomas A. Herbert and Robert Beverley Herbert in memory of their father, Edward Herbert, and Guy F. Herbert, W. Pinkney Herbert, and R. Beverley Herbert, Sr.

 

Mary Fleming Lewis circa 1750 circa 1815
Black and white chalk, circa 1808
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia

 

Meriwether Lewis 1774-1809
Black and white chalk, 1803 or 1807
Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis; bequest of Dr. Meriwether Lewis Anderson

 

Meriwether Lewis 1774-1809
Watercolor over graphite, 1807
The New York Historical Society, New York City;
gift of the heirs of Hall Park McCullough

 

John Marshall 1755-1835
Black and white chalk, 1808
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina;
bequest of Edward C. Marshall

 

Nahum Mitchell 1769-853
Black and white chalk, 1803-1804
Theodore W. Stedman

 

Jean-Victor Moreau 1763-1813
Black and white chalk, 1808
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City;
gift of William H. Huntington, 1883

 

Cornelia Schuyler Morton 1776-1808
Engraving with watercolor, 1797
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City;
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

 

Joseph Mosely 1760-1799
By Thomas Bluget de Valdenuit (1763 1846)
Black and white chalk, 1797
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Frederick Brown Fund (33.579)

 

Joseph Mosely 1760-1799
Copperplate, 1797
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

 

Harriet Rogers Murray circa 1789-1866
Watercolor, circa 1806
Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

 

Osage Warrior II, lifedates unknown
Watercolor, 1807
Private collection

 

Samuel Sitgreaves 1764-1827
Black and white chalk, 1798
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

 

George Washington 1732-1799
Copperplate, 1800
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

George Washington 1732-1799
Mourning ring with engraving, 1800
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

George Washington 1732-1799
Black and white chalk, circa 1800
Private collection

 

Elizabeth Selden McClurg Wickham 1781-1853
Black and white chalk, 1808
Mrs. Julia Wickham Porter

 

John Wickham 1763-1839
Black and white chalk, 1808
Virginia Wickham Hayes

 

Dyer Sharpe Wynkoop, circa 1775-1800
Black and white chalk, 1800
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City;
gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril E. Holt, 1966

 

Saint-Mémin collection of engravings, Folios 1, 5, and 12
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.;
gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

 

Saint-Mémin collection of engravings, Folios 2, 19, 47, and 51
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; gift of William Wilson Corcoran

 

Landscapes
New York prit de Mount-Pitt (New York taken from Mount Pitt)
Ink, wash, and graphite on paper, 1794
The New-York Historical Society, New York City

 

View of the City and Harbour of New York, taken from Mount Pitt
Hand-colored etching, 1794-1796
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures;
bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954

 

A View of West-Point, on the River Hudson, with the Steam-boat, invented by M. Fulton, going up from New-York to Albany
By F. Berthaux (lifedates unknown), after Saint-Mémin
Hand-colored lithograph, after 1814, from a circa 1810 drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; M. and M. Karolik Collection (41.682)

 

Associative Objects
Dissertation on the Freedom of Navigation and Maritime Commerce . . . (Philadelphia, 1802)
By William Barton (1754-1817)
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

 

Essays on Physiognomy: Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (3 vols.; London, 1789-1798); volume 2, 1792
By Johann Kaspar Lavater, translated from the French edition by the Reverend Henry Hunter
Library of the National Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Sketch of the Physiognotrace Invented by Gilles-Louis Chrétien
By Edme Quenedey (1756-1830)
Pen and ink, circa 1788
Facsimile of the original in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

 

Album of engravings compiled by Saint-Mémin for Henri Joliet
Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Libraries, Princeton, New Jersey

 

Saint-Mémin's letter to M. Sauvageot, December 7, 1849
Alan Voorhees

 

Saint-Mémin's passport, dated June 30, 1810
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; bequest of Mary Martin, 1938