Museum; View of a Creek, Perpignan Museum; Marine (1825), Storm, Montpellier Museum; Marine, Neuchatel Museum; Ships at Anchor (1830), Königsberg Museum; Entrance to Cathedral, Stettin Museum; Laden Boat boarding Coaster, Coast of Entretat—Normandy (1851), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; French Hospitality, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Marines (2, 1836, 1862), After the Storm (1842), W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Bellier, i. 805; L'Art (1875), i. 39, 59; Larousse; Meyer, Gesch., 271.
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ISABEY, JEAN BAPTISTE, born at
Nancy, April 11,
1767, died in Paris,
April 18, 1855.
Miniature painter,
pupil at Nancy
of Girardet and
Claudot, then in
Paris of Dumont
and David; painter
to the Empress
Josephine, 1805;
L. of Honour, 1817; Officer; Commander,
1853. Also painter to Charles X. Apart
from their intrinsic merit, his works are of
great value from their historical interest.
His portraits of Napoleon I. are among the
best in existence. Works: General Bonaparte
in Gardens at Malmaison, Napoleon
visiting Factory at Rouen (1804), do. at Jouy
(1806), Versailles Museum; Review before
First Consul in Courtyard of Tuileries
(1801), Staircase of the Musée du Louvre
(1817), Louvre, Paris; Congress of Vienna
(1815), Windsor Castle; Portrait of Napoleon
(in oil), do. of King of Rome, Nancy
Museum; do. of Grand-duke of Baden, Baden-Baden
Gallery; King Jerome, Dresden
Museum.—Bellier,
i. 804;
Biog. univ., xx.
382; Ch. Blanc, École française, iii.; Meyer,
Gesch., 104; Larousse, ix. 801; Lenormant,
B.A. et Voy., i. 218; Jal, 698.
ISAIAH, Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel,
Rome; fresco on ceiling.
ISENMANN, CASPAR, died in 1466.
German school. Became citizen of Colmar
in 1436. His pictures, influenced by the
Flemish school, are realistic in feeling, with
expressive heads and powerful though sober
colouring. In 1462 he contracted to paint
an altarpiece for the church of St. Martin at
Colmar. Works: Seven Scenes from Life
of Christ (1465), Colmar Museum.—Woltmann,
Deutsche Kunst im Elsass, 213.
ISIDORO, ST., Murillo, Seville Cathedral;
canvas, H. 6 ft. 2 in. × 5 ft. 6 in. Seated,
robed in white, with a mitre, with a crook
in right hand and an open folio in left; on
right, other books and a column; behind, a
curtain. Painted in 1655 for D. Juan Federigui,
Archdeacon of Carmona, who presented
it, with its companion, St. Leandro,
to the Cathedral.—Curtis, 243.
ISMENIAS, painter, of Chalcis, 5th century
B.C. Plutarch, in his life of the Athenian
orator Lycurgus (Vit. x., Orat. 37), says
Ismenias painted, for the Erechthæum, a
picture in which were represented the priests
of Poseidon of the family of Lycurgus.
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ISRAELS, JOZEF, born at Gröningen in
1824. Genre painter,
pupil in Amsterdam
of Cornelis Kruseman,
then in Paris of Picot.
His genre scenes from
Dutch maritime life
are superior to his earlier
historical pieces.
At present resides at
The Hague. Medals:
Paris, 3d class, 1867;
1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1867; Officer,
1878; Order of Leopold. Works: William
of Orange defying Decrees of King of Spain
(1855); Village Scene; Preparation for the
Future (1855), Walk along Cemetery (1856),
Amsterdam Museum; Children of the Sea;
Peaceful House; Fishing Boats shipwrecked
off Scheveningen (1862); Sick Mother, Mother
in Health, Orphan Asylum at Katwyk,
Last Breath, True Support, Madonna in the
Hut, Age and Infancy (1872); First Sail,
