Le Port de Trouville, pendant les travaux (Port of Trouville, Repairs in the Harbor)
Artist
Louis-Eugène Boudin
(French, 1824–1898)
Date1890
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 36.2 × 58.6 cm (14 1/4 × 23 1/16 in.)
framed: 51.4 × 74.3 × 8.9 cm (20 1/4 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
framed: 51.4 × 74.3 × 8.9 cm (20 1/4 × 29 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1905.2
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Known today as the proto-impressionist who encouraged a young Monet to paint outdoors, Boudin was highly admired in his own right by his contemporaries like Corot, who referred to him as “the king of skies.” Maintaining a studio in Normandy where he spent his summers, Boudin is best known for his depictions of fashionable beachgoers at the popular resort towns of Trouville and Deauville. However, he also painted a variety of marine scenes that focus on the more mundane aspects of port life, such as this one.
Boudin is considered a link between the Barbizon and impressionist groups in France because he painted en plein air, as opposed to only sketching outdoors like many Barbizon artists. Boudin was also known to work serially, producing multiple versions of the same scene to capture the effects of different times of the day, a strategy that Monet would later deploy in his famed series of haystacks and water lilies. In fact, it was at Monet’s request that Boudin participated in the 1874 Société Anonyme exhibition in Paris—better known as the first impressionist exhibition—although Boudin generally did not associate himself with the group.ProvenanceR.C. and N.M. Vose, Boston MAOn View
Not on view
