Archway of The Colosseum, First Level
Medium
Lithograph; only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 5/16 × 11 7/16 in. (41.5 × 29 cm) Image: 7 5/8 × 5 7/8 in. (19.3 × 15 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1944
Accession Number
44.15.10
Tags
RuinsArchesMenWomen
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Isabey · 1767–1855
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855) was a French painter and miniaturist whose extraordinary longevity and adaptability allowed him to serve as the preeminent portraitist of successive French regimes — from the court of Louis XVI through the Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration, and into the July Monarchy — making his career an almost unparalleled chronicle of French political and socia...