Cup (tasse Jasmin)
ca. 1815–21
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
5 1/8 × 4 1/4 in. (13 × 10.8 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
French, Paris
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Joint Bequest of Harriet K. and Grace Wilkes, 1922
Accession Number
22.45.14
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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...