Portrait of a Lady
1767–1855
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855)
Drawings
Portrait of a Lady, 1767–1855. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855). Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk; framing lines in black chalk; sheet: 21.6 x 16.8 cm (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); image: 16.9 x 13.9 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belden Greene 1960.133
- Maker/Artist
- Isabey, Jean-Baptiste
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk; framing lines in black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.6 x 16.8 cm (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Image: 16.9 x 13.9 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, center left, in gray ink: J. Isabey ; ON AN OLD MAT (now removed): Mme [me superscript] Mulo pui Monsur / Malard de faire 1 passpartout oval en papier / de couleur le [illegible] possible -- pour / Demain si c'est possible pour [illegible]sey cherche / vous divez l'heur
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1960.133
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belden Greene
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections, Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty, CMA, The Year in Review for 1960 (Nov. 30, 1960-Jan. 1, 1961), cma Bulletin 47 (1960), p. 254 no. 85, illus. p. 240.<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 28-Oct. 6, 1937).<br>CMA, Lace and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).<br>CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 12-Sep. 15, 1935).<br>CMA, Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest: Supplementing Drawings (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).<br>CMA, Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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