Group of Artists in Jean-Baptiste Isabey's Studio, n.d., Conté crayon, stumping, heightened with white chalk, sheet: 15 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (39 x 54.3 cm), Drawings, Louis Léopold Boilly (French, La Bassée 1761–1845 Paris), This recently discovered sheet is a study for one of Boilly’s most famous paintings depicting a gathering of artists in the studio of Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855). The finished canvas, exhibited at the Salon of 1798, is a group portrait of thirty-one prominent artistic figures, each one a closely observed portrait that was studied in an individual oil sketch
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