Portrait of a Woman
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
ca. 1795
Medium
Ivory
Dimensions
Diameter 2 7/8 in. (73 mm)
Classification
Miniatures
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962
Accession Number
62.122.88
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...