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Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany

Eugène Isabeyc. 1830

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

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.

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  • Title: Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany
  • Creator: Eugène Isabey (French, 1803-1886)
  • Date Created: c. 1830
  • Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 25.8 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
  • Provenance: Family of the artist (according to Jill Newhouse). [Jill Newhouse, New York]
  • Type: Drawing
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.218
  • Medium: watercolor and gouache with black chalk
  • Inscriptions: signed, upper right, in brown ink: E Isabey ; by artist?, lower right, in graphite: Cézembre.
  • Department: Drawings
  • Culture: France, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
  • Collection: DR - French
  • Accession Number: 1993.218
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