Lady of the Court of Napoléon I
Medium
Black crayon and white paint, heightened with brown wash
Dimensions
9 11/16 x 7 1/8 in. (24.6 x 18.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Misses Sarah and Josephine Lazarus, 1888-95
Accession Number
95.14.48
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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...