Eugène Isabey
Matelots Saluant le Christ en Sortant du Port de St. Valery-en-Caux, 1867
Oil on canvas
64.9 H x 94.5 inches
164.8 H x 240 cm
Framed: 75 H x 106.5 inches (190.5 H x 270.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower left "E. Isabey, 1867"
Provenance:
French Government, Stored at the Lourves until 1881
Sale Empress Eugénie, 21 Apr. 1881, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Lot N°46
Sold, 10 Dec. 1920, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Lot N°89
Sold, 4 Dec. 1977, Versailles
Kurt E. Schon Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Private collection, Houston, Texas
Exhibited:
Paris Salon of 1867, No. 778 in the Louvres Archives Nationale.
Literature:
Miquel, Pierre. Eugène Isabey 1803-1886, La Marine au XIXe siècle. Maurs-La-Jolie, Édition de la Martinelle, 1980, Vol. I, pp. 162-164, illustrated no. 87; Vol. II, pp. 198, 234, illustrated no. 1363D. Print.