Portrait of Benjamin Mocatta (1802–1865)
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
19th century
Medium
Brush and brown wash
Dimensions
sheet: 9 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (24 x 16.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Nadine Orenstein, 2011
Accession Number
2011.382
Tags
MenPortraits
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...