Eugène BOUDIN (Honfleur 1824 - Deauville 1898)

Eugène BOUDIN (Honfleur 1824 - Deauville 1898)
"Port de Trouville"
French School
Signed on the lower right
Oil on panel
27 x 22 cm / 10.6 x 8.6 in
Provenance:
Private Collection, France
Exhibitions :
Birmingham
Bordeaux
Boston
Buenos Aires
Cambridge
Chicago
Cologne
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Lausanne
London
Madrid
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New York
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Sydney
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Toulouse
Vienna
Washington
Zurich
Literature:
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temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers", nouv.éd.rev. et augm., sl,
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Artist Biography :
Born in Honfleur, France, Eugène Boudin is known for his paintings of the sea. In 1835 his family moved to Le
Havre, where Boudin began working as an assistant to his father. There he came into contact with local artists and
exhibited the paintings of Constant Troyon (1810-1865) and Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) in his stationery
shop, who, along with Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855) and Thomas Couture (1815-1879), encouraged young
Boudin to follow an artistic career. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce, began painting full-time,
and travelled to Paris and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to stay in Paris,
although he often returned to paint in Normandy and from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany.
He was profoundly influenced by Dutch 17th Century Masters and on meeting the Dutch painter Johan Jongkind
(1819-1891), who had already made his mark in French artistic circles, Boudin was encouraged by him to paint
outdoors (en plein air).
In 1857 Boudin met the young Claude Monet who spent several months working in Boudin’s studio. They remained
lifelong friends and Monet later paid tribute to Boudin’s early influence. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends
in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 but never considered himself a radical or innovator.
He debuted at the Paris Salon in 1859 and received a third place medal at the Paris Salon of 1881 followed by a
gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. In 1892 he was made a knight of the Légion d’honneur.
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