The Beach at Trouville

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker


1824-1898

Title

The Beach at Trouville

Date of Production

1875

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 cm (panel)
Width: 24.5 cm (panel)

Object Number

P.1932.SC.43

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Keywords

Label Text

Many of Boudin’s pictures depict clusters of Parisian fashionable figures on holiday in the beach resorts of Normandy. Claiming that ‘three brush strokes from nature are worth more than three days in the studio’, Boudin painted on small wood panels that were easy to transport and store, enabling him to paint outdoors. In this example, the rapid and thin brushwork gives the scene a sense of immediacy and spontaneity.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Trouville 75

Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom left & recto : : E. Boudin

Provenance

Anon 1920.; Louis de Wild, The Hague, sold Hotel Drouot, Paris, 29 May 1920 (lot 11); M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York, by 1925-6; Purchased by Samuel Courtauld in July 1926; Courtauld Gift, 1932

Exhibition History

Masterpieces of Impressionism from The Courtauld Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 10/09/2019-15/12/2019; Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, Japan, 03/01/2020-15/03/2020; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan, 28/03/2020-21/06/2020
Eugene Boudin, Musée Jacquemart André, Paris, 22/03/2013-22/07/2013
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
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The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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