''Artists in Isabey's Studio'' () is a painting of 1798 by the French artist

Louis-Léopold Boilly Louis-Léopold Boilly (; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings documenting French middle-class social life. His life and work ...

, showing many artists who were influential under the

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.Eitner p.7 It was displayed with 529 other works at the

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of 1798, which was mainly noted for

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's ''

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''. It is now in the

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, whose collections it entered in 1911. From left to right it shows the composer

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, the art critic

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, an unknown man, the sculptor

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, the painters

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, Jean-Louis Demarne,

Jean-Baptiste Isabey Jean-Baptiste Isabey (; 11 April 1767 – 18 April 1855) was a French artist during both the First Empire and the Restoration. Early life and education Isabey was born in Nancy, France on 11 April 1767. At the age of 19, following some lessons ...

(leaning towards the easel),

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(seated before the easel),

Nicolas-Antoine Taunay Nicolas-Antoine Taunay (10 February 1755 – 20 March 1830) was a French painter known best for his landscapes with scenes from ancient and modern history, mythology, and religion. Early years Nicolas Antoine Taunay was born in Paris, France, in ...

, Swebach-Desfontaines, the miniature painter Charles Bourgeois, the painter Guillon Lethière,

Carle Vernet Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet (; 14 August 175827 November 1836), was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude-Joseph Vernet and the father of Horace Vernet. Biography Vernet was born in Bordeaux. At the a ...

, the engraver Jean Duplessis-Bertaux, the architects

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and

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, the actor Baptiste aîné of the Comédie-Française (seated by a folio of drawings), the painter and architect

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, the painters Jan-Frans van Dael and

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, the actor

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, the painters

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himself, the actor Chénard du Théâtre-Italien, the painters Xavier Bidault, Girodet-Trioson (seated and looking at the viewer), the sculptor Denis Chaudet, the engraver Maurice Blot, the sculptor

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, the painter

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and an unknown man.

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Bibliography

* Alsdorf, Bridget. ''Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting''. Princeton University Press, 2022. * Eitner, Lorenz. ''French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century: Before impressionism''. National Gallery of Art, 2000. * Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca. ''Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life''. National Gallery Company, 2019. {{DEFAULTSORT:Artists in Isabey's Studio 1798 paintings Group portraits by French artists 18th-century portraits Portrait paintings in the Louvre Paintings in the Louvre by French artists Paintings by Louis-Léopold Boilly Oil on canvas paintings