Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Jean -Baptiste Isabey ( born April 11, 1767 in Nancy, † April 18, 1855 in Paris) was a French painter.

Life

Jean -Baptiste Isabey was born on 11 April 1767 in Nancy. He was a student in Paris, Jacques Louis David, and was then court painter to Napoleon, whom he had often accompany order, immediately hold strange scenes, the gloss and the center was this in the picture. After Napoleon's fall, the artist worked for the Bourbons, who represented it as well as almost all the sovereigns of Europe in numerous pictures. Isabey's works are extremely graceful and his portraits of great fidelity. His miniatures are among the highest of its kind He finished in 1805 and the first finished drawings in the Estampemanier. As a masterpiece of painting on porcelain was explained to the plate by Charles Perciers drawing, which in the middle of Napoleon I in the robes and around him the busts of marshals and generals of France, which in 1805 his armies commanded represents. The princes and ministers present at the Vienna Congress has of Isabey's hand on a picture. A very successful lithographic work is the Voyage pittoresque et romantique dans l' ancienne France. Jean -Baptiste Isabey died on 18 April 1855 in Paris.

His son Eugène Isabey was also a painter and went with him to school.

Works

• Many portraits of famous personalities of his time.
• Voyage pittoresque et romantique dans l' ancienne France