An oil on canvas painting by French artist Eugene Gabriel Louis Isabey (1803-1886) depicting a castle siege from the sea in the time of the 17th Century. Various soldiers are charging up the hillside toward the castle which appears to be in flames with smoke coming from the top of the left turret. Boats are seen in the water with more troops closing in and charging the castle. Two trumpeters stand near the top of the wall playing the charge as another climbs up the large boulder to join them.

The painting measures 18" x 28" and overall with the gilt frame measures 27" x 37". The painting and frame are in overall very good condition and ready to hang.

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Biography from J. Paul Getty Museum

Eugène Isabey  
b. 1803 Paris, France, d. 1886 Lagny, France, draftsman; painter, French

After spending his formative years in the Louvre Museum amidst the most accomplished artists of the day, Eugène Isabey initially painted mostly landscapes in watercolor. In 1820 he began to travel, first to Normandy and then to Britain, where he discovered a freer watercolor technique. On several occasions he returned to Normandy, painting seascapes and landscapes that helped to solidify his reputation as one of the leading proponents of Romantic views, both dramatic and placid.

Isabey also made drawings of other scenic areas of France to illustrate travel volumes and dashed off many landscape drawings and watercolors throughout his life. As the official artist accompanying the French expedition to Algiers in 1830, Isabey illustrated the account of the expedition. Disillusioned when these drawings and oil studies failed to sell on his return, he chose another subject area.

His success with an anecdotal genre painting at the 1831 Salon led him to a new specialty in historicizing genre painting. Isabey's skill with elegant court dress and elaborately re-created ceremonies of earlier centuries, in turn, led to an appointment as one of Louis-Philippe's court painters. In his later years, he painted brightly colored scenes of violence, massacres, duels, and looting.