Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Eleanor Ramsay Fitzwilliam
Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin (French, 1770–1852) · c. 1790–1852
The <em>physiognotrace</em> 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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