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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