Fishing Boats Tossed before a Storm

c. 1840

Eugène Isabey

Artist, French, 1803 - 1886

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor with touches of gouache and pen and brown ink with gum arabic, over black chalk, with scraping and incising into wet paint on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

  • Dimensions

    overall: 93.3 x 63.9 cm (36 3/4 x 25 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.79.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Didier Aaron Inc., New York); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2012

  • Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2012, 38, 158, no. 13 (color). (French title: De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke.)

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Salz, Alan, et al. Didier Aaron, Catalogue V, Paris-London-New York, n.d., no. 24 (reproduced in color).

Inscriptions

lower right in watercolor: E. Isabey

Wikidata ID

Q64560472

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