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Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Portrait of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, ca. 1809, watercolor on ivory mounted under glass with a pearl border in a copper alloy pendant case, 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 3/16 in. (7 x 4.8 x .5 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.26

Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Portrait of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, ca. 1809

Artist Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855)
Title Portrait of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais
Object Date ca. 1809
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Copper alloy pendant case with a pearl border
Dimensions 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 3/16 in. (7 x 4.8 x .5 cm)
Inscription Signed: “Isabey”
Credit Line Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.26

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4534

Artist's Biography

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

Provenance

The Natalba Collection, by spring 1953 [1];

Purchased from the Natalba Collection by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, spring 1953–August 7, 1958;

Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1958.

Notes

[1] As recorded in the deed of gift and the Philbrook Museum of Art object and donor files. This may refer to Donald de Natalba, New York.

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Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Portrait of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais, ca. 1809, watercolor on ivory mounted under glass with a pearl border in a copper alloy pendant case, 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 x 3/16 in. (7 x 4.8 x .5 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.26