| Artists in Isabey's Studio | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Louis-Léopold Boilly |
| Year | 1798 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 71.5 cm × 111 cm (28.1 in × 44 in) |
| Location | Louvre,Paris |
Artists in Isabey's Studio (French:Réunion d'artistes dans l'atelier d'Isabey) is a painting of 1798 by the French artistLouis-Léopold Boilly, showing many artists who were influential under theFrench Directory.[1][2][3] It was displayed with 529 other works at theParis Salon of 1798, which was mainly noted forGérard'sCupid and Psyche. It is now in theLouvre, whose collections it entered in 1911.
From left to right it shows the composerÉtienne Nicolas Méhul, the art criticHoffman, an unknown man, the sculptorCharles-Louis Corbet, the paintersMichel Martin Drolling,Jean-Louis Demarne,Jean-Baptiste Isabey (leaning towards the easel),François Gérard (seated before the easel),Nicolas-Antoine Taunay,Swebach-Desfontaines, the miniature painterCharles Bourgeois, the painterGuillon Lethière,Carle Vernet, the engraverJean Duplessis-Bertaux, the architectsPierre-François-Léonard Fontaine andCharles Percier, the actorBaptiste aîné of the Comédie-Française (seated by a folio of drawings), the painter and architectJean-Thomas Thibault, the paintersJan-Frans van Dael andPierre-Joseph Redouté, the actorFrançois-Joseph Talma, the paintersCharles Meynier,Louis-Léopold Boilly himself, the actor Chénard du Théâtre-Italien, the paintersXavier Bidault,Girodet-Trioson (seated and looking at the viewer), the sculptorDenis Chaudet, the engraver Maurice Blot, the sculptorFrançois-Frédéric Lemot, the painterGioacchino Serangeli and an unknown man.
