Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
1783 · Etching and engraving · Drawings and Prints
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) was a French painter and print maker specialized in portraits and miniatures. He enjoyed official favour from the time of Louis XVI to Napolean III. Isabey studied under Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) and received one of his first portrait commissions from Marie Antoinette (1774-1792). The genre painter and printmaker Eugène Isabey (1804-86) was his son and student.
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Isabey
- Date
- 1783
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1956
