Group of Children Around a Candle
Medium
Lithograph in black with second tint stone in orange on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.3 × 10.5 cm (5 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 21.4 cm (11 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
121551
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...