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 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.

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 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.

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,