Mme. Ledieu
c. 1820
Medium
Lithograph in black on tan China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.5 × 11.2 cm (4 15/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Primary support: 15 × 12.3 cm (5 15/16 × 4 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 34.6 × 26 cm (13 5/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9576
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...