Currently not on view
Richard Hatfield,
ca. 1805–1810
Charles-Balthazar-Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin, French, active in the United States, 1770–1852
x1972-32
Born an aristocrat in prerevolutionary France, Saint-Mémin lost his fortune after the dissolution of the nobility and moved to New York in 1793. There, he turned to printmaking and portraiture to earn a living before returning to Paris in 1814. Saint-Mémin’s modestly priced drawn profiles were distinctive for his use of a mechanical device called a physionotrace to record the contours of the sitter’s profile. During his stay in America, Saint-Mémin drew more than nine hundred individuals, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Although nothing is known of Richard Hatfield, this portrait may be dated on the basis of his “windswept” hairstyle, which became more common after 1805.
Information
Title
Richard Hatfield
Dates
ca. 1805–1810
Medium
Conté crayon and charcoal (?) heightened with white chalk
Dimensions
49 × 38.2 cm (19 5/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
frame: 55.7 × 48.9 × 4.1 cm (21 15/16 × 19 1/4 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequested to Princeton University Library by Mrs. Mollie K. Schroeder in the name of her husband, Nathan S. Schroeder, Class of 1898; transferred in 1972 to the Art Museum
Object Number
x1972-32
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
Richard Hatfield; by descent to Nathan S. Schroeder, Class of 1898.;
Mrs. Roswell Weidner, Philadelphia, Feb., 1975: “This has earmarks of St. Memin. What connection?;
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"Acquisitions 1972", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 32, no. 1 (1973): p. 20-30.
, p. 28 (illus.); p. 30 - Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., Appendix pp. 133-134
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 87, fig. 1; pp. 301–302, checklist no. 140; p. 302 (left half of verso, rotated illus.)
