About the Artwork
The Wreck
1854
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey
1803-1886
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 38 × 30 inches (96.5 × 76.2 cm) Framed: 42 5/8 × 35 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (108.3 × 90.2 × 6 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Edward Chandler Walker
07.14
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Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: E Isabey 1854
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Provenance
Edward C. Walker
1907-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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"Gifts Fine Arts Department 1907-1908." Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 2, no. 1 (1908): pp. 9, 26, (ill.) p. 24.
"The Wreck." Bulletin of the DIA 2, no. 1 (1908): pp. 5-6 (ill.).
Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Modern Paintings. Detroit, 1910, pp. 22-23, no. 135 (ill.).
"A Gallery set Aside." Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Art 7, no. 2 (1913): pp. 23, 25 (ill.).
Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 96, no. 110.
Réau, Louis. L'Art Français aux Etats-Unis. Paris, 1926, p. 163. [as “L’épave”]
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 108.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 66, no. 108.
Of Ships and the Sea, 1600-1900. Exh. cat., Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, 1963, cat. 28 (ill.).
Eugene Isabey, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Lithographs. Exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum. Cambridge, MA, 1967, cat. 16.
Detroit Institute of Arts Handbook. Detroit, 1971, p. 154.
Cinco siglos de oboras maestras. Exh. cat., Museo de Jade. San Jose, 1978. p. 87, cat. 31 (ill.).
The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, Hackley Art Museum. Flint, Grand Rapids, Midland, and Muskegon, 1978, pp. 28-29, cat. 7 (ill.).
French Marine Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersburg, FL, 1985, pp. 9, 13, 21, cat. 3 (ill.).
Mertens, S. Seesturm und Schiffbruch: Eine motivgeschichtliche Studie. Hamburg, 1987, pp. 102, 193 (ill.)
Masterpieces from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989, pp. 86, 218, cat. 54 (ill.)
Wissman, F.W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, pp. 80-81 (ill.).
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Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey, The Wreck, 1854, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Chandler Walker, 07.14.
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