Eugène Lepoittevin
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Eugène Lepoittevin, also known as Poidevin, Poitevin, and Le Poittevin, was a French artist who achieved an early and lifelong success as a landscape and maritime painter. His work ranged from erotic
Portrait by Charles Baugniet, 1838
Eugène Lepoittevin signature from Les Bains de Mer, Plage d’Etretat, 1864 and mark from a lithograph
Auguste Xavier Leprince and Eugène Lepoittevin, The Artist's Studio, 1827, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison
Eugène Lepoittevin, possible self-portrait from Les Diables de Lithographies, 1832
Eugène Isabey
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Eugène Louis Gabriel Isabey was a French painter, lithographer and watercolorist in the Romantic style.
Eugène Lepoittevin
…and Monet and writers including Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Karr would make Étretat famous and fashionable, it was Lepoittevin and his colleague Eugène Isabey who "discovered" the place, and Lepoittevin who "invented" Étretat. So wrote Alexandre Dumas: "Le Poittevin a inventé Étretat." Interest has been drawn…
Eugène Isabey (c.1860); photograph by Nadar.
Eugène Isabey as a child, painted in 1810 by Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet
The Port of Dunkirk, 1831
The Battle of Texel, 1839