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Women on a Beach, Trouville (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1824-1898

Title

Date of Production

1866

Medium

graphite, watercolour (recto), synthetic black chalk (verso), on blue wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 10.4 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2337

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Trouville was a fashionable seaside resort on the Normandy coast. In this charming watercolour, Boudin quickly renders five figures sitting on the beach. With a single line of graphite for the horizon, he uses the blue paper to stand in for both the water and sky. Slightly off-centre but roughly within the same plane, the group underscores the immense expanse of the sea, while the delicate drawing imparts a pleasant, quiet feeling.

Notes

This was not made as a direct preparatory study for any painted motif, but was a stock recording of variations in groupings, poses and fashions to which the artist could refer.

Provenance

the artist's estate sale, Durand-Ruel, Allard et Bonjean (Paris), 20 - 21 March 1899, lots 172 or 174, L.828; Lefèvre (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Special Display - French Drawings of the 19th century, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 08/02/2008-12/06/2008

The Witt Collection - Four centuries of drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/04/2004-20/06/2004

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998 ...More

The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the
Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 11/05/1988-04/09/1988

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Three centuries of French taste, Batsford Gallery, London, 20/01/1932-20/02/1932 ...Less

Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
cat. no. 6
ill. on p. 24

Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Related Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1988
cat. no. 1

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 72 ...More

Three centuries of French taste, Batsford Gallery, London, 1932, 1932 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite, dated in the artist's hand?: "1866"; lower right corner, graphite: "66".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in blue ink: Eugène Boudin (L.828).

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