Lot 177
  • 177

JEAN-BAPTISTE ISABEY | Portrait of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822)

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description

  • Isabey, Jean-Baptiste
  • Portrait of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822)
  • Watercolour and bodycolour on card, gilt-metal mount and frame;signed and dated lower left: Isabey / a vienne / 1814.
  • 135 by 98 mm.

Provenance

With Edwin Bucher, Trogen, by 1984

Exhibited

Malmaison, 2005-2006, p. 148, no. 155

Literature

Friesen (ed.), 2001, p. 413, no. 191

Condition

Overall good but inevitable yellowing of card and some fading of colour pigments.
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Catalogue Note

This portrait is one of a number that Isabey painted when in Vienna at the time of the Congress.