Napoléon I (1769–1821)
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
Oval, 2 x 1 1/8 in. (50 x 30 mm)
Classification
Miniatures
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Junius S. and Henry S. Morgan, 1947
Accession Number
47.33.3
Tags
Napoleon IMenPortraits
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...