Eugene Louis Boudin (1824 - 1898) France
Pencil on Paper
Measure 13 1/4"in H x 9 1/2"in W and 17 3/4"in H x 13 3/4"in W with frame

Known for: Plein-air marine painting, coastal scenes
Biography: Eugene Boudin, the son of a ship's captain, was born on the coast at Honfleur in Normandy in 1824. He thus became familiar with the moods and atmosphere of the sea, which, along with the Normandy countryside, was the artist's main subject matter. As a young man in Le Havre, Boudin worked with a stationer and framer who displayed paintings by visiting artists, circumstances that allowed the young man to meet established painters such as Theodule Ribot, Eugene Isabey and Constant Troyon, among others. At an exhibition of the Societe des Amis des Arts du Havre in 1958, Boudin met Claude Monet to whom he stressed the importance of working directly from nature. At the end of his life he also worked on the French Riviera. By 1859 he had achieved a style in the rendering of skies that henceforth excited the admiration of artists and critics, leading to Courbet to call him a "seraph", and to Corot to coin the epithet "king of the skies". Boudin was an artist of great independence who made discoveries that foretold those of the Impressionists. He shared with them a love of movement and the contemporary scene and a pioneering pleasure in working out of doors, though his palette is unusual in the predominance of subtle gray tones. Eugene Boudin was the first Frenchman in modern times to carry the art of marine painting to the level achieved by the English painters Turner, Bonington, and Constable. Indeed, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest painters of the sea.

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