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The Departure of Elisabeth of France for Spain  1858

by Eugène Isabey

During his youth, this early Romantic artist joined Eugène Delacroix and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28) in painting marine scenes on both sides of the English Channel. Later, Isabey turned to historical genre subjects of the type depicted in this painting. The picture shows a scene from the life of Elisabeth of Valois (1545-68), the daughter of King Henry II of France ...
Size: 
H: 26 x W: 19 11/16 in. (66 x 50 cm)
Medium: 
oil on panel
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum