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Eugne Boudin, c. 1890s

Le Havre, The Port by Eugne Louis

Boudin (1884) Brooklyn Museum

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Eugne Louis Boudin(French: [bud] 12 July 1824 8 August 1898) was oneof the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine

painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along itsshores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of

Baudelaire and Corot called him the "king of the skies".[1]

Contents

1 Biography2 Awards3 References4 External links5 Notes

Biography

Oneof Boudin's "Brittany" paintings

Born at Honfleur, Boudin was the son of a harbor pilot, and at age

10 the young boy worked on a steamboat that ran between LeHavre and Honfleur. In 1835 the family moved to Le Havre, whereBoudin's father opened a store for stationery and picture frames.Here the young Eugene worked, later opening his own small shop.Boudin's father had thus abandoned seafaring, and his son gave itup too, having no real vocation for it, though he preserved to hislast days much of a sailor's character: frankness, accessibility, andopen-heartedness.

In his shop, in which pictures were framed, Boudin came intocontact with artists working in the area and exhibited in the shop

the paintings of Constant Troyon and Jean-Franois Millet, who,along with Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Thomas Couture whom he metduring this time, encouraged young Boudin to follow an artistic
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Sailboats at Trouville, 1884, Yale

University Art Gallery, Collection of

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.

Venice-Seascape at the Giudecca,

1895, Princeton University Art

Museum

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career. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce, started painting full-time, and traveled to Paristhe following year and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to move toParis, although he often returned to paint in Normandy and, from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany.

Dutch 17th-century masters profoundly influenced him, and on meetingthe Dutch painter Johan Jongkind, who had already made his mark inFrench artistic circles, Boudin was advised by his new friend to paintoutdoors (en plein air). He also worked with Troyon and Isabey, and in

1859 met Gustave Courbet who introduced him to Charles Baudelaire,the first critic to draw Boudins talents to public attention when the artistmade his debut at the 1859 Paris Salon.

In 1857/58 Boudin befriended the young Claude Monet, then only 18,and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and to

become a landscape painter, helping to instill in him a love of brighthues and the play of light on water later evident in Monet'sImpressionist paintings. The two remained lifelong friends and Monetlater paid tribute to Boudins early influence. Boudin joined Monet and

his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical orinnovator.

Boudins growing reputation enabled him to travel extensively in the1870s. He visited Belgium, the Netherlands and southern France, andfrom 1892 to 1895 made regular trips to Venice. He continued to exhibitat the Paris Salons, receiving a third place medal at the Paris Salon of1881, and a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. In 1892Boudin was made a knight of the Lgion d'honneur, a somewhat tardyrecognition of his talents and influence on the art of his contemporaries.

Late in his life he returned to the south of France as a refuge from ill-health, and recognizing soon that the relief it could give him was almostspent, he returned to his home at Deauville, to die within sight ofChannel waters and under the Channel skies he had painted so often.

Awards

The Eugne Boudin Prize is an award given by the Socit Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Among the laureates ofthis award, the following painters were nominated:

Maurice Boitel, in 1989.

References

Wedmore, Frederick (1911). "Boudin, Eugne". In Chisholm, Hugh.Encyclopdia Britannica4(11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 314. This contains a detailed discussion of his works.Gustave Cahen,Eugne Boudin(Paris, 1899) Arsne Alexandre,Essais Frederick Wedmore, Whistlerand Others(1906).

External links

Impressions of the Sea(http://www.rehs.com/eugene_louis_boudin_impressions_of_the_sea.html) Rehs Galleries' exhibit featuringa detailed biography on Eugne Boudin and images of his work.Eugne Boudin - The complete works (http://www.eugeneboudin.
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org), more than 800 works by Eugne BoudinImpressionism: a centenary exhibition(http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/78705/rec/222), an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fullyavailable online as PDF), which contains material on Boudin (p. 40-41)

Notes

1. Sterling, Charles and Salinger, Margaretta,French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the MetropolitanMuseum of Art. XIX-XX Centuries, Volume 3, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 134.

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