Eugène

Boudin

1824-1898

Born in Honfleur (Calvados) on July 12, 1824, Louis-Eugène Boudin passed away in Deauville on August 8, 1898. The son of a sailor, he grew up surrounded by the Norman sea, an inexhaustible source of inspiration throughout his career.

Thanks to his correspondence and personal diaries, Boudin's life is known to us in sometimes great detail, revealing an artist deeply committed to his craft and his era.

Among his major works is notably Still Life with Pumpkin (1854–1860), an oil on canvas held at the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa) in Le Havre.

Mentor to the young Claude Monet, Boudin was the first to systematically paint outdoors, capturing with rare sensitivity the changing light of the Norman coasts, the lively beaches, and the cloudy skies. His work, straddling Realism and Impressionism, remains celebrated today in the world's greatest museums.

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Photographic portrait of Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), a pioneering Impressionist painter – Galerie AB Paris collection.
Beach Scene, Trouville
Circa 1860
Watercolor and pencil on paper
19 x 32.5 cm
Eugène Boudin, beach scene in Trouville circa 1860, watercolor on paper depicting strollers on the Normandy beach under a cloudy sky.
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