Eugène Isabey (1803–1886)
After a Storm, c. 1869
Oil on canvas
height: 37 cm (14.5 in); width: 60 cm (23.6 in)
Hermitage Museum
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (22 July 1803, in Paris –
25 April 1886, in Montévrain) was a French painter, lithographer
and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
He was
born to Jean-Baptiste Isabey, a well known painter who enjoyed the patronage of
the Imperial Family. Originally, he wanted to be a sailor, but his father
insisted that he study painting; a turnabout from the usual situation where the
family opposes an artistic career in favor of something more practical.
After
studying with his father and copying the Old Masters at the Louvre, he began
sharing a studio with the landscape painter, Xavier Leprince at Honfleur, in
1824, then moved to Saint-Siméon after Leprince's untimely death. The following
year, he sent some landscapes to the Salon for his first formal exhibition.
In 1831he
made a short trip to Algiers, where he had painted scenes of the Royal Navy's
campaign, and was concerned that the situation there was still too unsettled to
make a lengthy stay.
Shortly
after, Isabey became a court painter for King Louis-Philippe and was named a
Knight in the Légion d'Honneur in 1832. One of his best known paintings was
done during this period, in 1840, depicting the return of Napoleon's remains
from Saint Helena aboard the Belle Poule.
He favored historical paintings, genre scenes and
landscapes, but also executed numerous canvases depicting storms and
shipwrecks; possibly reflecting his own thwarted career plans. During a trip to
England, he was known to have studied the works of J.M.W. Turner. He was
especially skillful at rendering subtleties in darker colors; which might be
called a form of grisaille. He took in students on a regular basis; including
Eugène Boudin, Johan Barthold Jongkind and Durand-Brager. In his later years,
he turned from marine painting to historical scenes, usually of a violent
nature, such as massacres, duels and robberies. More on Louis
Gabriel Eugène Isabey
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