209 - EMILE ISENBART (1846–1921)

EMILE ISENBART (1846–1921) Rivotte Railroad Bridge, 1886 Oil on canvas, monogrammed in the lower right corner and dated 1886. (Former inscription “Lebourg” on the frame) with “P. Foinet” stamp on the back. Dimensions: 43 x 64.5 cm Publication: Emile Isenbart, Besançon: The Citadel in 1885. Exhibited in 2023 and featured in Fanny Calley’s book, published by Éditions du Belvédère. - A French painter born in Besançon, Isenbart was passionate about painting from a very young age. He trained under Antonin Fanart, from whom he adopted the Barbizon style. Deeply attached to the land of his ancestors, “Le Bélieu,” he chose as early as the 1870s to make it the subject of many of his paintings and to depict the topographical and geological features of the Jura Mountains and their peat bogs.