Two Cottages

c. 1844

Eugène Isabey

Associated Names
Eugène Isabey

Artist, French, 1803 - 1886

The image shows an old, thatched-roof cottage. The horizon is positioned just above the roofline. The cottage has two chimneys protruding upwards. The drawing style includes pen strokes, hatching, and cross-hatching for texture and shadows. The color palette is monochromatic, with black ink on an off-white background. The ground near the cottage is uneven with some indistinct objects, and there is foliage near one of the doors. Faint clouds are sketched in the sky above the roof.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1939

  • Curtis, Atherton. Catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographié de Eugène Isabey. Paris: Paul Proute, 1939.

Inscriptions

lower left in image: EI; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Isabey / C.104i (of ii) / c. 1844? / 14432; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 300- / HD <> 1-06

Wikidata ID

Q75426075

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