Group of Artists in Jean-Baptiste Isabey's Studio, n. d. , Conte crayon, stumping, heightened with white chalk, sheet: 15 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (39 x 54. 3 cm), Drawings, Louis Leopold Boilly (French, La Bassee 1761?1845 Paris), This recently discovered sheet is a study for one of Boilly?s most famous paintings depicting a gathering of artists in the studio of Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767?1855). The finished canvas, exhibited at the Salon of 1798, is a group portrait of thirty-one prominent artistic figures, each one a closely observed portrait that was studied in an individual oil sketch