The Duchess d'Angoulème, Madame la Dauphine
Medium
Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 × 18 cm (9 9/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Chine: 26.4 × 21 cm (10 7/16 × 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 42.4 × 33.4 cm (16 3/4 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9574
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...