Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin
Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
The physiognotrace device used to create this portrait consisted of a wooden frame within which a sitter posed in profile; the artist then peered through an eyepiece and followed the contour and features of the sitter’s face by maneuvering a graphite pencil attached to the mechanism.
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Henrik Ploetz — Willem George Frederik (Frederik; 1774-99), 
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin — Portrait of a Man
Gilles Louis Chrétien — Portrait of a man to right
John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare
Arend Willem Baron van Reede en zijn zoon Willem Frederik Ba
Thomas Gainsborough — Charles Rousseau Burney (1747–1819)
Jean Etienne Liotard — Portrait of a Man
anonymous — Portret van een man![[Mezzotint portrait of a Young Man in Profile, from The St. Memin Collection of Portraits]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP116721.jpg)
Jeremiah Gurney|Charles B. J. F. de Saint-Mémin — [Mezzotint
Anonymous, French, 18th century — Bust of a Man
Thomas Ryder I|Henry William Bunbury|Thomas Ryder I|Simon Wa
Max Rosenthal (American, 1833–1918) — Richard Henry Lee
