"Jean-baptiste Isabey, Drawing Of A Seated Young Woman, 1807."
A black chalk or charcoal drawing with gouache highlights on beige paper depicting a young woman seated before a window half-closed by a curtain, offering a glimpse of an English garden. Monogrammed and dated 1807 lower left. Provenance: auction by Me Blache in Versailles, April 1967, lot 31. Jean-Baptiste Isabey trained under Jean-Baptiste Claudot and Jacques-Louis David in Paris. His skill and finesse quickly made him one of the favorite portrait painters of the Directory and then the Empire. He is best remembered as the great representative of French miniature painters and achieved the remarkable feat of reviving this genre, which had previously been scorned by art lovers. 
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