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
Rights
Public Domain
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...