Jean Baptiste Isabey  Isabey, Jean Baptiste (zhäN bätēstˈ
ēzäbāˈ) [key], 1767–1855, French portrait painter and
miniaturist. He was a pupil of J. L. David and was greatly
influenced by Fragonard. His portraits are graceful and strongly
individualized. Isabey prospered under all the changing regimes,
portraying in turn Marie Antoinette, Mirabeau, David, Napoleon
(Versailles), Josephine (National Gall., London), and Louis
Philippe. He was one of the first painters to make lithographs.
Much of his work, which constitutes a historical document of
great interest, is in the Louvre. His son, Eugène Louis Gabriel
Isabey, 1804–86, was a marine and genre painter who also made
lithographs. He is well represented at the Louvre; the
Metropolitan Museum has one of his paintings.