The Beach at Trouville
Maker
(Artists)
1824-1898
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)
Width: 24.5 cm (panel)
Accession Number
P.1932.SC.43
Mode of Acquisition
Samuel Courtauld, gift, 1932
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
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.
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 ...More
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998 ...Less
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 ...More
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998 ...Less
Literature
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998
Inscriptions
Inscription: Trouville 75
Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom left & recto : : E. Boudin
Inscription: inscription : signed : bottom left & recto : : E. Boudin
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