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John Carlyle Herbert by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

John Carlyle Herbert

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin · 1807

Palette

Dusty rose
46% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.4:1
Graphite
38% of the image
Black · text contrast 11.5:1
Sepia
7% of the image
Brown · text contrast 6.2:1
Bone white
4% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.4:1
Salmon
3% of the image
Pink · text contrast 7.2:1
Shell pink
2% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 12.4:1

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Details

Artist
Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin
1770–1852
Date
1807
Type
Drawing & watercolour
Medium
charcoal and pastel on pink prepared paper
Size
sheet: 53.66 × 40.48 cm (21 1/8 × 15 15/16 in.)
Place
French
Period
19th century
Main colour
Pink · lightness 42, colourfulness 19

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (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., 1964). Museum record. Public domain. United States: National Gallery of Art marks it open access (published_images.openaccess = 1: public domain, CC0). Europe: Artist died 1852: public domain in the EU since 1 January 1923. Last checked 2026-10-31 (published_images.openaccess = 1: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules

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