Eugene Louis Boudin (1824 - 1898)
Eugene Louis Boudin was active/lived in France. Eugene Boudin is known for plein-air marine painting, coastal scenes.

Medium: oil on wood board
Size: 4" x 10 1/2"
Frame Size: 8 1/2" x 15"
Condition: Ok overall, one long horizontal crease on lower part of thle painting
Style: Impressionist
Circa: 1887 Dated

The following was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.

Louis Boudin was born in Honfleur, France on July 12, 1824, the son of a pilot. His father gave up the sea and the family moved to Le Havre. Soon after, Boudin stopped going to school and took a clerk's job in the printer's shop, drawing and painting at every free moment.

His first contact with the world of French artists came when he was twenty. With an older partner he opened a small stationery store that specialized in artists' supplies and the framing of pictures. In those days the picturesque city of LeHavre was a favorite resort for artists and through his little business he met Troyon, Millet and Courbet.

Boudin went to Paris to study; in 1850 he received an annuity from the township of Le Havre which would permit him to study in Paris for three years. Each year he sent back to the museum in Le Havre one or more pictures, but his success was not brilliant and the committee did not renew its confidence. After a short time he returned to his native town.

He was a follower of Corot and in his turn became the master of Monet. Boudin was a leader in the colony called Ecole St. Sinion, which included Millet, Courbet, Diaz, Harpignies, Jongkind, Monet and others. He moved to Trouville, then married and settled in Havre. From 1875 on he exhibited at the Salon. In 1896, then over seventy, he received the Legion of Honour, He died at Deauville on August 8, 1898.

His best work was on his small canvases. He was pre-eminent as a painter of tidal rivers, and Corot called him "Master of the sea." A large number of his sketches are at Havre. Boudin has not often received the full credit he deserves as an important contributor to the impresionist movement. His modesty and timidity and the constant dissatisfaction he felt in his own acheivement may have been partly responsible for this. But it was he who convinced Monet of the value of working in the open air and indeed, did much to deflect Monet from his early comparatively high style toward the lighter, airier and more brilliantly colored pictures for which he became famous.

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