Portrait of F. Thomas
1798–99 [or ca. 1820]
Medium
Lithograph; only state
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in. (29 × 21 cm) Image: 6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (17.2 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.74.2
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Isabey|Graf and Engelmann · 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...