Artwork Details
- Title
- Andre Joseph Villard
- Artist
- Date
- 1810-1812
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sight 2 7⁄8 x 2 1⁄4 in. (7.3 x 5.7 cm) oval
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frederick W. Cron
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- silverpoint and watercolor on paper
- Subjects
- Portrait male — Villard, Andre Joseph — bust
- Object Number
- 1961.9.1
Artwork Description
Silverpoint was an unusual medium for a miniaturist, yet more than half of David Boudon’s work incorporates this exacting drawing technique. To draw with silverpoint, the artist took a wooden stick fitted with a silver tip and drew on his prepared paper. The pale, silvery lines quickly tarnished, leaving a darker, warm brown color. Andre Joseph Villard appears to have been a wealthy Virginia planter. In 1794 his daughter Constance married fellow Virginian William Hutt, who moved the family to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1799.