Eugène Boudin, The Beach at Deauville
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Eugène Boudin

The Beach at Deauville

1864

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on wood panel
Dimensions
34.7 × 26 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-109314

During the 1860s, Boudin executed many paintings and watercolors representing well-to-do tourists and vacationers enjoying seaside resorts in Normandy, principally Trouville and Deauville. In this scene, the informally posed figures suggest a sense of relaxation and intimacy. The overturned chair in the foreground underscores the impression of a casually observed moment, as though a sea breeze or a quick departure by its former occupant has upended it. The majority of Boudin's small oil paintings of beach scenes of the 1860s were executed on wood panel. After laying down a thin white ground, …

Provenance

Johnson, 1946.71

Registry history

  • 1864 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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