Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898) - Dorpsgezicht

\Artist: Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898)
Technique: Watercolour\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 27. 5_33_3_cm
#Exclusive. Art. Week Eugène Boudin (Honfleur, July 12, 1824 – Deauville, August 8, 1898) was a French painter, draughtsman and etching artist. He is mainly known for his seascapes and is considered a forerunner of Impressionism. Biography Boudin was born in Honfleur, a port town on the Normandy coast, and came from a marine family. As a boy he sailed on his father's ship, and then had every opportunity to get to know the sea and the coasts. He started a framery himself and in his spare time he painted. One of the painters who bought material from him was Jean François Millet. Boudin dared to present his work to him. Millet made some corrections, but advised him not to become a painter himself. This last piece of advice knocked the wind out of Boudin. In 1847 he left the shop to his partner and went to Paris to copy paintings in the Louvre. The following year he set off on a trip through northern France and Belgium and studied the Flemish masters there. At the insistence of his former clients, the municipality of Le Havre gave him a scholarship in 1850 for three years. After this period, however, he did not make the friendly genre pieces that had been hoped for. Instead, he made studies in the open air. He had understood that "the time of the romantics was over. From now on, we must seek out the simple beauty of nature. . . nature as it really is in all its diversity and pristineness. " He was mainly inspired by the Normandy coast, in particular Deauville and Trouville-sur-Mer. He is also called "Painter of Beaches", a name that is actually unjustified, since the beach in his paintings occupies only a small part. Mooring quay in Rotterdam. 1879. Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. He was one of the first French landscape painters to work in the open air. His marines form a direct link between the naturalism of the early and impressionism of the late 19th century. Boudin was the one who introduced Claude Monet to this method of outdoor painting. At the invitation of art dealer Léon Gauchez and on the run from the Franco-Prussian War, Boudin stayed in Belgium in 1870-1871 and painted harbour views in Antwerp and Brussels. [1] Between 1875 and 1890 Boudin frequently visited the Dutch and Belgian beaches and painted a lot there. He visited Dordrecht (dated work known from 1874/1876 and 1884) , Rotterdam (ditto of 1876 and 1879) and Scheveningen. In 1892-1895 he did the same in Venice. The work offered is of private origin and has a good provenance. The work was bought at the time on the Tefaf of the (former) gallery Robert Noortman, a specialist in this oeuvre, and has a certificate of authenticity attached. The work has a studio stamp. #exclusiveartweek