The Beach, Trouville
Artist: Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824-1898)
Date: 1865
Dimensions:
Painting: H: 13 5/8 in. (34.6 cm); W: 22 5/8 in. (57.5 cm);
Frame: H:21 in. (53.3 cm); W: 30 1/4 in. (76.8 cm); Depth: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1951.372
Label Text:On a beach at the French resort town Trouville on the coast of the English Channel, vacationing Parisians cluster together under hazy skies. The hoop skirts, crinolines, and fashionable bolero jackets seem incongruous as beachwear, but as Englishman Henry Blackburn wrote in 1892, “It is not so much to bathe that we come here, as because…the world of fashion and delight has made [Trouville] its summer home; because here we can combine the refinements, pleasures and ‘distractions’ of Paris with northern breezes, and indulge without restraint in those rampant follies that only a Frenchman or Frenchwoman understands.”
Eugène Boudin invented the genre of la mer moderne (the modern sea)—his rapid, vigorously painted impressions of the seaside peopled with the fashionable set. He was dubbed “le roi des ceils” (king of the skies) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (see this gallery) for his luminous skies, which typically dominated his small canvases. Boudin was a strong advocate of painting and sketching en plein air (in the open air), a practice he introduced to a young Claude Monet (Gallery 35).
Eugène Boudin invented the genre of la mer moderne (the modern sea)—his rapid, vigorously painted impressions of the seaside peopled with the fashionable set. He was dubbed “le roi des ceils” (king of the skies) by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (see this gallery) for his luminous skies, which typically dominated his small canvases. Boudin was a strong advocate of painting and sketching en plein air (in the open air), a practice he introduced to a young Claude Monet (Gallery 35).
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