Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany
Medium
watercolor and gouache with black chalk
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland in honor of the Club's seventy-fifth anniversary
Accession Number
1993.218
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About this 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...