Galerie Paul Prouté

Eugène Cicéri was one of the great landscape painters of the nineteenth century. The son of the set designer Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri and grandson of the miniaturist Jean-Baptiste Isabey, he was immersed in a stimulating artistic environment from a very young age. He began his training under his father’s guidance, before going on to refine his skills with his uncle Eugène Isabey, a master of seascapes. Cicéri is distinguished by his devotion to the landscape genre, a passion he cultivated throughout his career through painting, lithography and watercolour. His works, often published in collections or series such as Baron Taylor’s Voyages pittoresques et romantiques, bear witness to his central role in the evolution of the representation of landscape in France.
Like his uncle Eugène Isabey, Cicéri developed a genuine fondness for seascapes. From the 1830s onwards, he explored the coasts of Dieppe, Honfleur and Trouville, drawn to the landscapes of northern and western France, renowned for their ever-changing skies. He took great pleasure in depicting the sea, seeking to capture the reflections and play of light on the water, a theme
to which he returned time and again.