Portrait of French Painter Hubert Robert
Medium
Etching; third and final state
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 9/16 × 10 1/2 in. (37 × 26.6 cm) Plate: 10 5/8 × 8 11/16 in. (27 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.520.237
Tags
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Isabey|Simon Charles Miger|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...