Eugène Louis Boudin
French, 1824-1898
Seaside, Port of Honfleur
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Eugène Louis Boudin
French, 1824-1898c. 1860
Seaside, Port of Honfleur
Eugène Louis Boudin French, 1824-1898 →drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
c. 1860
Medium
Pastel on blue wove paper
Dimensions
18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Helmuth Bartsch Endowment
Boudin was a native of Honfleur, one of the most picturesque harbor communes in the French region of Normandy. Self-taught, he started experimenting with pastel in the 1850s. This sort of landscape, likely made en plein air, would prove extremely influential to the young Claude Monet.
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