Jean-baptiste Isabey, Drawing Of A Seated Young Woman. 1807.

Drawing in black chalk or charcoal and gouache highlights on beige paper depicting a young woman sitting in front of a window half-closed by a curtain revealing an English garden. Monogrammed and dated 1807 lower left. Provenance: sale Me Blache in Versailles, April 1967 under no. 31. Jean-Baptiste Isabey trained with Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jacques-Louis David in Paris. His skill and finesse allowed him to quickly become one of the favorite portraitists of the Directory and then of the Empire. He will remain above all as the great representative of French miniature painters and achieved the feat of bringing this genre, which until then had been disdained by amateurs, up to date.