Works by this Artist
Beach at Trouville
Eugène Boudin, 1863
Background
son of a sailor
Studies
largely self-taught
Career:
1851 – wins three-year scholarship by Le Havre Municipal Council
1858 – meets Claude Monet at a Société des Amis des Arts du Havre (Society of the Friends of Art of Le Harvre) exhibition
1859 – exhibits Pardon of Sainte-Anne-la-Palud (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre) at Paris Salon
1863 – begins exhibiting regularly at the Salon, continues until 1897
1874 – exhibits at First Impressionist exhibition
1881 – Paul Durand-Ruel becomes Boudin’s dealer
Travels
Northern France and Belgium (1849); Brittany (1857); Belgium and the Netherlands (1870-71); Brussels; Antwerp; Dordrecht; Rotterdam; Scheveningen; Venice (1892-95); regular travel between Normandy, Brittany, Bordeaux and the French Riviera
Important Artworks
On the Beach at Sunset, 1865 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Village by a River, 1867 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
The Quai at Antwerp, 1874 (Dallas Museum of Art)
Dealers and Collectors
Baron Isidore-Justin-Séverin Taylor; Paul Durand-Ruel
Readings:
Boudin, Eugène. Boudin: Impressionist Marine Paintings. Salem, MA : Peabody Museum, 1991
Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988
Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946
Selz, Jean. E. Boudin. New York: Crown Publishers, 1982
Images
In 1869 Boudin lived at 31 rue St Lazare in Paris (9th arrondissement), not far from the train station Gare St Lazare.
In 1865, Boudin lived in an apartment at 21 rue Fontaine, Paris (9e arrondissement). Toulouse-Lautrec lived here in the 1890s.