Eugène Isabey
Medium
Lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.5 × 8.1 cm (4 15/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 28.2 × 19.4 cm (11 1/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
159980
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...