The Wreck

1854

Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey French, 1803-1886

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Wreck

Artwork Date 1854

Artist Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey

Life Dates 1803-1886

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 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)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Edward Chandler Walker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 07.14

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Signed Signed and dated, lower right: E Isabey 1854

Provenance

Edward C. Walker;
1907-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

"Gifts Fine Arts Department 1907-1908." Bulletin of the DMA: Annual Report 2, no. 1 (1908): pp. 9, 26, (ill.) p. 24.

"The Wreck." Bulletin of the DMA 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, Massachusetts, 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, Michigan, 1978, pp. 28-29, cat. 7 (ill.).

French Marine Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersburg, Florida, 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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