"Path By The Sea, Drawing By Louis Cabat"
Louis Cabat was a French painter and engraver from the Barbizon School. A student of Camille Flers, Louis-Nicolas Cabat made his debut at the Salon of 1833. A member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institut de France in 1867, and became director of the Académie de France in Rome from 1879 to 1884. In 1844-1845, he was the teacher of Eugène Fromentin, who paid tribute to him in Une année dans le Sahel. Drawing on very beige vellum, stamped lower right (Lugt L 3939).