Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of a Woman
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
- Date
- 1835, retouched by the artist in 1843
- Medium
- Watercolor on vellum
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
French court artist Isabey was accustomed to painting royalty, but here he uses his delicate stipple technique to portray a simply dressed young woman with her books and writing implements. Her sensitivity to the whims of fashion is evident in the fact that eight years after painting her portrait the artist replaced her no longer fashionable “Apollo’s knot” hairstyle with ringlets and added gauzy sleeves to her gown.
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