Hubert Robert
Medium
black chalk and stumping, heightened with white gouache on wove paper, wrapped around a drawing block prepared by Niodot fils
Dimensions
image: 26.5 x 20.7 cm (10 7/16 x 8 1/8 in.) overall (sheet): 32.3 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Morton Morris
Accession Number
2000.176.1
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...