Eugène Isabey

Artist

Eugène Isabey (1803–1886) was born in Paris, the son of Jean-Baptiste Isabey, the miniature painter of Napoleon's court. He wanted to be a sailor, but his father insisted he become a painter, and the sea became his great subject: storms, shipwrecks and beaches of Normandy, painted with the free brushwork and dramatic light of Romanticism. In 1830 he accompanied the French expedition to Algiers as official painter. He also made lithographs for Baron Taylor's monumental series Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France, and he was an important teacher and friend of Johan Barthold Jongkind and an influence on Eugène Boudin. Our print, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, is his lithograph of the church of Saint-Jean in Thiers (1831) from that series.

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