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ISABEY, JEAN BAPTISTE (1767–1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 860 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISABEY, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1767–1855) , See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Nancy on the 11th of See also:April 1767. At nineteen, after some lessons from See also:Dumont, See also:miniature painter to See also:Marie Antoinette, he became a See also:pupil of See also:David. Employed at See also:Versailles on portraits of the See also:dukes of Angoulemme and See also:Berry, he was given a See also:commission by the See also:queen , which opens the See also:long See also:list of those which he received, up to the date of his See also:death in 1855, from the successive rulers of See also:France. Patronized by See also:Josephine and See also:Napoleon, he arranged the ceremonies of their See also:coronation and prepared drawings for the publication intended as its See also:official See also:commemoration, a See also:work for which he was paid by See also:Louis XVIII., whose portrait (en-graved, Debucourt) he executed in 1814: Although Isabey did See also:homage to Napoleon on his return from See also:Elba, he continued to enjoy the favour of the Restoration, and took See also:part in arrangements for the coronation of See also:Charles X. The See also:monarchy of See also:July conferred on him an important See also:post in connexion with the royalcollections, and Napoleon III. granted him a See also:pension, and the See also:cross of See also:commander of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour. " See also:Review of Troops by the First See also:Consul " was one of his most important compositions, and " Isabey's See also:Boat,"—a charming See also:drawing of himself and See also:family--produced at a See also:time when he was much occupied with See also:lithography—had an immense success at the See also:Salon of 182o (engraved, See also:Landon, Annales, i. 125). His portrait of " Napoleon at Malmaison " is held to be the best ever executed, and even his tiny See also:head of the See also:king of See also:Rome, painted for a See also:breast-See also:pin, is distinguished by a decision and breadth which See also:evidence the See also:hand of a See also:master. A See also:biography of Isabey was published by M. E. Taigny in 1859, and M. C.

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Lenormant's See also:article, written for See also:Michaud's Biog. univ., is founded on facts furnished by Isabey's family.

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