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Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany

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Date

c. 1830

Artist

Eugène Isabey (1803-1886)

Collection

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Image Link

http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.218

Description

Isabey was primarily known for his watercolors and paintings of marine and beach scenes. As a young artist, he met and befriended Eugene Delacroix and Richard Parkes Bonington and traveled with them to England in 1825 where he was able to study the work of J. M. W. Turner and the English watercolorists. Isabey was one of the first French painters to work en plein air, or directly from nature. He proved to be an important French landscapist whose life spanned almost the entire 19th century. He contributed illustrations to the Voyage pittoresques et romantiques and became a sought-after watercolorist and painter of historical landscapes.
Inscription: signed, upper right, in brown ink: E Isabey ; by artist?, lower right, in graphite: Cézembre.
Medium: watercolor and gouache with black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 25.8 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
Accesion Number: 1993.218

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art

Location

Cézembre, St-Malo, France

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