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Andre Joseph Villard
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About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAndre Joseph Villard. 1810-1812. David Boudon, Swiss, born Geneva, Switzerland 1748-died 1816; last known residence Chillicothe. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Frederick W. Cron. CC0.
