About the Artwork
Grandfather's Armor
1876
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey
1803-1886
French
Unknown
Oil on wood panel
Unframed: 17 1/2 × 24 1/2 inches (44.5 × 62.2 cm) Framed: 26 7/8 × 33 5/8 × 3 1/2 inches (68.3 × 85.4 × 8.9 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr.
20.96
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Markings
Signed, lower right: E. Isabey. 7\[illegible]
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Provenance
collection of Dexter M. Ferry, Sr.
after 1907, by descent, Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1920-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, C. Catalogue of paintings, sculpture and contemporary arts and crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 96, no. 111.
C. C. "Group of European Paintings Presented," Bulletin of the DIA 2, no. 4 (1921): pp. 34-36, esp. p. 36.
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 109.
Richardson, E. P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 66, no. 109.
From David to Courbet. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, February 1-March 5, 1950, cat. 55.
Eugene Isabey, Paintings Watercolors, Drawings, Lithographs. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, November 22- December 29, 1967, cat. 25.
The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat, DIA Show- on-the-Road (Flint Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, Hackley Art Museum). Detroit, 1978/1979, pp. 30-31, cat. 8, (repr.).
Of Knights and Spires: Medieval Revival in France and Germany. Exh cat., Rosenberg and Stiebel. New York, April 27-June 16, 1989.
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Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey, Grandfather's Armor, 1876, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dexter M. Ferry, Jr., 20.96.
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