The Wreck, 1854

  • Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey, French, 1803-1886

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 38 × 30 inches (96.5 × 76.2 cm)
  • 42 5/8 × 35 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (108.3 × 90.2 × 6 cm)

Gift of Edward Chandler Walker

07.14

On View

  • Era of Revolution, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed and dated, lower right: E Isabey 1854

Edward C. Walker

1907-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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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.