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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
1767-1855
Congress of Vienna (Congrès de Vienne)
1815
Approximately 7 3/16 x 4 1/2 inches (194 x 116 mm), each; slip case: 13 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches (337 x 235 mm)
Brush and brown wash on paper.
2006.20
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Album of thirty-one miniature portraits of participants in the Congress of Vienna, 1815. The drawings were presumably bound into an album in the mid 1820's by Decle, binder to the king, which was subsequently worked on by the Susse Frêres, binders active in the late 1830's and 1840's.
Autograph letter tipped in.
Autograph letter tipped in.
Inscriptions/Markings
Each portrait is signed, dated, and inscribed by the artist in pen and brown ink. Accompanied by manuscript title-page by Isabey in pen and brown ink., "congrès de vienne / medailles / des 8 Souverains aliés. / portraits. / des 21 Ministres / et des 2 Secrétaires. / du protocole. / dessinés d'après nature, par J. Isabey / à vienne / an. 1815".
Associated names
Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, former owner.
Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner.
Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, former owner.
Nesselrode, Dimitry, Comte de, former owner.
Nicolas, Grand Duke, former owner.
Seligmann, Jacques, 1858-1923, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Berry, Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchesse de, 1798-1870, former owner.
Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, former owner.
Nesselrode, Dimitry, Comte de, former owner.
Nicolas, Grand Duke, former owner.
Seligmann, Jacques, 1858-1923, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 123.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 99, repr.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 99, repr.
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