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 canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. The Empress, seated in a chair near a window, holding a book in her left hand. Painted in 1544, after her death, from a picture by a supposed Flemish artist. Among the pictures taken by Charles V. to Yuste. Engraved, with alterations, by D. de Jode.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 103.

ISABELLA D'ESTE, COURT OF, Lorenzo Costa, Louvre; canvas, H. 5 ft. 2 in. × 6 ft. 4 in.; signed. Isabella, Marchioness of Mantua, crowned by Love, who stands on the knees of a woman seated in a garden on the banks of a river; around her, musicians make music and poets compose verses; in foreground, two women seated, one crowning a bull, the other a lamb; on right, a nymph with bow and arrow; on left, a knight who has decapitated a hydra; in background, a cavalry fight. Painted about 1510 for the Marquis of Mantua; passed at sack of that city (1630) to Château Richelieu, France.—C. & C., N. Italy, i. 548; Rosini, iv. 157; Villot, Cat. Louvre, 102.

Court of Isabella d'Este, Lorenzo Costa, Louvre.

ISABELLA AND THE POT OF BASIL, Holman Hunt, Mr. James Hall, Tynemouth, England. Scene from Keats's poem—"Isabella, or the Pot of Basil." Isabella, full-length, standing, bending over the vase in which she has buried the head of her lover, slain by her brothers. Her tearless black eyes have the light of madness in them, and her luxuriant dark-brown hair is flung lovingly over the relic, which is placed on her prie-dieu, on a silken altar-cloth. Exhibited in 1868; sold to Mr. Gambart; original sketch sold at Christie's, 1871, for 525 guineas. Replica, J. W. Garrett, Baltimore. Engraved by A. Blanchard.—Art Journal (1868), 97; Athenæum, Sept., 1873, 374.

ISABEY, EUGÈNE (LOUIS GABRIEL), born in Paris, July 22, 1804, died in Paris, April 26, 1886. Landscape and marine painter, son and pupil of Jean Baptiste Isabey. In 1830 he accompanied the expedition to Algiers as royal marine painter. Medals: 1st class, 1824, 1827, 1855; L. of Honour, 1832; Officer, 1852. Works: Hurricane at Dieppe, Harbour of Honfleur (1827); Port of Dunkirk (1837); The Old Barks (1836); Battle of the Texel (1839), Versailles Museum; View of Dieppe (1842), Nancy Museum; View of Boulogne Harbour (1843), Toulouse Museum; The Alchemist (1845); Louis Philippe receiving Queen Victoria at Tréport (1846); Departure of Queen of England (1846); Ceremony in the Church of Delft (1847); Marriage of Henry IV. (1848); Embarkation of De Ruyter and De Witt (1850), Luxembourg Museum; Departure of the Huntsmen under Louis XIII. (1855); Church Interior with Worshippers (1856),	Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Burning of the Steamer Austria (1859), Bordeaux Museum; Wreck of the Ship Emily in 1823 (1865), Nantes Museum; The Alchemist (1865); Temptation of St. Anthony (1869); Bois de Varangeville, Ango Manor at Varangeville, Roadstead of Saint-Malo, Luxembourg Museum; Smugglers shipping Goods, Douai Museum; Beach of Villerville, Laval Museum; Village on the Cliffs, Marseilles