The drawing depicts a landscape seen from an elevated point, showing water and land with a structure on a hill. There are figures, a post or tree by the water, and a simple color scheme with neutral and gray tones.
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A Coast Road with Cliffs in the North of France

Eugène Isabey (French, 1803 - 1886)

c.1830

Medium
graphite on buff wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 15.56 × 24.77 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of Andrew Robison
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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