Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011486Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany
About the Artwork
Eugène Isabey was primarily known for his watercolors and paintings of marine and beach scenes. As a young artist, he met and befriended Eugène 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.
Inscriptions
signed, upper right, in brown ink: E Isabey ; by artist?, lower right, in graphite: Cézembre.
Provenance
Family of the artist (according to Jill Newhouse). [Jill Newhouse, New York]
Exhibition history
Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Isabey (French, 1803–1886)
- Date
- c. 1830
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache with black chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.8 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
- Accession no.
- 1993.218
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