# Portrait of a Woman

- By: Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855)
- Date: 1835, retouched by the artist in 1843
- Medium: Watercolor on vellum
- Classification: Portrait Miniature
- Dimensions: Overall: 12.3 x 17.4 cm (4 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Credit line: Jo Hershey Selden Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.6)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2018.6/2018.6_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

French court artist Isabey was accustomed to painting royalty, but here he uses his delicate stipple technique to portray a simply dressed young woman with her books and writing implements. Her sensitivity to the whims of fashion is evident in the fact that eight years after painting her portrait the artist replaced her no longer fashionable “Apollo’s knot” hairstyle with ringlets and added gauzy sleeves to her gown.