CHARLES AUGUSTE BALTHAZAR JULIEN DE SAINT-MEMIN (1770-1852)*

Portrait of Sarah Johnson Livingston

Details

CHARLES AUGUSTE BALTHAZAR JULIEN DE SAINT-MEMIN (1770-1852)*
Portrait of Sarah Johnson Livingston
inscribed "Sarah Johnson married to Philip Livingston Mother of Mrs. Christina Maycomb"
pencil and pastel on pink paper
18 x 13in. (sight)

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York City, 1959
Mr. and Mrs. R.M. Hansen, Grosse Pointe, Michigan

Literature

Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection vol. 1, Brochure 3, November 1958: 50, no. 158.
Lita Solis-Cohen, "Living with antiques: The Bryn Mawr home of Mr. and Mrs. Bertram Dawson Coleman," Antiques (April 1966), p. 574.

Lot Essay

Born in Dijon, France in 1770, St. Memin fled to Switzerland with his family at the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1793 he and his family moved to America where he became a landscape and portrait painter. He travelled as a painter throughout the East coast, to New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Annapolis, Washington, Richmond, and Charleston. He returned to France in 1814 where he remained until his death in 1852.