Jean-Baptiste Isabey: petits portraits et grands desseins

Abstract

Jean-Baptiste Isabey, like François Gérard or Anne-Louis Girodet, made his name under the Revolution and the Empire. Like them, he trained as a painter of history in the studio of Jacques-Louis David and attended the school of the Royal Academy of painting. But Isabey has differentiated himself from his colleagues by making miniature and finished drawing his specialties. His success will be dazzling and he will remain all his life one of the painters of the elite.