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Fishing Boats
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Eugène Isabey began his career assisting his father, the miniaturist J. B. Isabey, with illustrations for a travel book on Italy. In 1825, Isabey made a trip to England, where he was profoundly influenced by the latest trends in watercolor painting. On his return, he specialized in coastal scenes of Normandy, in the north of France. Here, Isabey depicts the luminous atmospheric effects at the meeting of sea, shore, and sky with the consummate skill that earned him a reputation as one of the leading Romantic watercolorists.
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Provenance
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Purchased by William T. Walters (through George A. Lucas as agent), Baltimore, May 17, 1883 [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1] The Diary of George A. Lucas, p. 178.
Exhibitions
| 2011 | Setting Sail: Drawings of the Sea from WAM. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2005-2006 | The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. |
| 1983 | A Connoisseur's Portfolio: Nineteenth-century Drawings and Watercolors in the Walters Art Gallery. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1979 | A Supple Brush: The Flowering of Continental Watercolors. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1977-1978 | From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. |
| 1976-1977 | Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. |
| 1967 | Eugène Isabey. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 6/22/1977 | Treatment | repaired |
| 1/1/2002 | Treatment | examined for exhibition; loss compensation; other |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 7 11/16 x W: 13 9/16 in. (19.5 x 34.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1884
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.888