A Storm off the Normandy Coast

Eugène Isabey French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 802

Isabey, the foremost seascape painter of his generation, sketched in Normandy throughout the 1850s. This dramatic scene, composed as if witnessed from the edge of the surf, was probably painted in his studio based on memory. It evokes the Romantic milieu of the artist's formative years, when he was influenced by Gericault, Delacroix, and Bonington.

A Storm off the Normandy Coast, Eugène Isabey (French, Paris 1803–1886 Lagny), Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

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