Fountain in the Garden of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Medium
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.3 × 14.5 cm (8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 41.4 × 28.5 cm (16 5/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
40005
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...