Portrait of Jean Baptiste Isabey

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Isabey from 1828 at the Louvre depicts the celebrated miniaturist who documented the Napoleonic court. Vernet's portraits of fellow artists record the personalities of French artistic life during the Restoration and July Monarchy. Vernet, director of the French Academy in Rome from 1828 and one of the most prolific history painters of the 19th century, executed military and narrative subjects with the fluid technical assurance and documentary accuracy that made him the

The portrait presents the miniaturist with refined handling and warm palette. Vernet's polished technique creates a vivid image of the fellow artist.