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Laveuses au bord de la Touques, circa 1894-1897

Signed lower right E. Boudin

Old reference numbers on the back.


Eugène Boudin is considered one of the precursors of Impressionism. The son of a sailor, he began working at a young age in a stationery shop in Le Havre, where he met artists and art enthusiasts who encouraged him to paint. From 1850, he devoted himself to painting full-time, frequenting Paris and studying the masters of landscape. A specialist in seascapes and views of Normandy ports and beaches, he was among the first to paint outdoors, seeking to capture the variations in light and sky. His scenes of holidaymakers on the beaches of Trouville and Deauville are famous. He met a young Claude Monet, who considered him a master: it was Boudin who encouraged him to paint nature from life. He participated in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, while maintaining a more sober and less experimental style than his colleagues. He died in 1898 in Deauville.

He is remembered as a pioneer of modern painting and a “painter of the skies”, for the extraordinary sensitivity with which he depicted clouds and marine atmospheres.

oil on panel
cm 24,7 x 36,5 - framed cm 40 x 51,2
Attached is a declaration of authenticity on photograph by Robert Schmit n. 1018, dated Paris, 7 October 1986.
Origin:
Galerie Allard et Nöel, Paris;

Galerie Schmit, Paris.
Exhibitions:
Maitres Français / XIXe-XXe Siècles, Galerie Schmit, Paris, 7 May-19 July 1986.
Bibliography:
R. Schmit, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre peint d'Eugène Boudin, Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1973, Volume III, p. 293, n. 3376 (ill.);

Galerie Schmit, Maitres Français / XIXe-XXe Siècles, catalog of the exhibition held in Paris, 7 May-19 July 1986, n. 9 (ill.).

L. Manoeuvre, Boudin et la Normandie, Editions Herscher, Paris, 1991, p. 105 (ill.).
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