The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Cliffs by the Sea at Cézembre, Brittany
c. 1830
(French, 1803–1886)
Sheet: 25.8 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)
Location: Not on view
Description
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.- Family of the artist (according to Jill Newhouse). [Jill Newhouse, New York]
- “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218. Mentioned: p. 167 www.jstor.org
- Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).CMA, Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs (Sep. 13-Nov. 27, 1994).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1993.218