Portrait of the Artist Joseph Chinard
1799/1802
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping and erasing, and touches of brush and black watercolor, heightened with gum Arabic and lead-white gouache (partially discolored), on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.9 × 19.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202345
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...