Scéne de plage à Trouville

Details

Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
Scéne de plage à Trouville
signed 'E. Boudin' (lower left) and inscribed and dated 'Trouville 74.' (lower right)
oil on panel
6 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (17.1 x 35.2 cm.)
Painted in 1874

Provenance

Boussod-Valadon, Paris.
E. Le Roy, Paris.
Jules Strauss, Paris; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 May 1902, lot 2.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York.
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, San Francisco.
Richard Green, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Literature

G. Jean-Aubray, Eugène Boudin, Neuchâtel, 1968, no. 121, p. 240 (illustrated).
R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Paris, 1973, no. 948, p. 338 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune & Fils., Exposition Eugène Boudin, November 1900, no. 97.

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Lot Essay

"What fascinated Boudin at Trouville and Deauville was not so much the sea and the ships but the groups of people sitting on the sand or strolling along the beach: fine ladies in crinolines twirling their parasols, pompous gentlemen in top hats, children and little dogs playing on the sand. In the harmony of the colours of the elegant clothes he found a contrast to the delicacy of the skies"
(J. Selz, E. Boudin, New York, 1982, p. 57).

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