Église de St. Nectaire
1831
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1831
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
Église de St. Nectaire is a 1831 by Eugène Isabey, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This picture shows a quiet hillside scene. A church sits on a high cliff. Below it, a broken wooden bridge lies half-buried in a rocky stream. A lone rider on horseback moves along a path near the ruins. The artist focused on rough textures—the jagged rocks, the twisted wood, and the rough stone of the church. These details make the scene feel real and a bit wild. Want to see more of this style? Check out Romanticism.
Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey (French pronunciation: ; 22 July 1803 – 25 April 1886) was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
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