EUGÈNE BOUDIN | Le Crotoy, port de pêche et rivage

Durand-Ruel, Paris
Private Collection
Private Collection (acquired circa 1950s)
Thence by descent

Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, vol. III, Paris, 1973, no. 2604, illustrated p. 21

This work is in good condition. The panel is sound. There is frame abrasion and minor associated loss to all four edge. There is a pigment loss at lower left corner. The image is slightly dirty and would benefit from a cleaning. There is a 1/2 inch loss at the right corner most likely due to frame abrasion. Under UV light: scattered strokes of inpainting to the sky and to the upper edge. A few additional strokes toward the left edge and a single pindot stroke to the center of the right edge.
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"To swim in the open sky. To achieve the tenderness of clouds. To suspend these masses in the distance, very far away in the grey mist, make the blue explode. I feel all this coming, dawning in my intentions. What joy and what torment! If the bottom were still, perhaps I would never reach these depths. Did they do better in the past? Did the Dutch achieve the poetry of clouds I seek? That tenderness of the sky which even extends to admiration, to worship: it is no exaggeration."— Boudin in his diary on December 3, 1856