Portrait of a Young woman
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
1810/20
Medium
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions
11.1 × 8.3 cm (4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.); Framed: 12.9 × 11.6 cm (5 1/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Classification
miniature painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11750
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...