The 183 Artworks of media Ivory and containing the word jean, baptiste isabey, ivory, 1800

Mosnier was a favored portraitist at the French court, who worked both on ivory and on canvas; after the French Revolution, he led an itinerant life, moving first to London and then Hamburg and St. Petersburg. The costume in which Louis XVI is represented is identical to that worn in a miniature of ...

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Preserved in its entirety, the threewinged movable altar (triptych) displays in its closed state a cross decorated with rosettes on a stepped pedestal under a baldachin. When opened, the central panel depicts the crucifixion. Longinus thrusts a lance into the dead Christ’s side while Stephaton holds...

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Colorful Madras fabric and blonde hair may appear innocent, but historical awareness of their meanings in the 1790s alerts us to how this sitter has foregrounded her whiteness during a period rife with the racialized terms of colonial struggle. The fabric, imported from India, was part of the Triang...

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This lively miniature, with its dynamic graphite underdrawing, quickly dashed watercolor, and gouache, was long thought to have been painted by one of eighteenth-century France’s most celebrated artists, Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). Today, it is considered part of a group of extraordinary mini...

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In eighteenth-century Europe, Paris led the production of high-quality luxury goods. Parisian goldsmiths made a wide range of small, personal articles such as snuffboxes; étuis to hold sealing wax, tweezers, or utensils for sewing; souvenirs, which contained thin ivory tablets for note taking; and s...

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After his studies, and a brief period working with architect Pierre Patout, Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann succeeded to his father’s decorating business, one that purveyed wallpaper, painted finishes and mirrors, to the luxury market of Paris. Gradually Ruhlmann expanded this business to accommodate all the...

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