Eugène Boudin
Trouville. Le Port
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Eugène Boudin
1824 - 1898
Trouville. Le Port
signed E. Boudin, dated .81 and titled (lower right); signed Boudin, dated 1881 and titled on the reverse
oil on canvas
40 by 55cm., 15¾ by 21⅝in.
Framed: 55.5 by 70.5cm., 21⅞ by 27¾in.
Painted in 1881.
The canvas is not lined and the edges are taped. Inspection under UV light reveals historic retouching to the edges of the canvas and intermittent tiny lines of retouching to the composition. There are a few surface accretions in places. This work is in overall good condition.
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M. Weinberg, Paris (acquired from the above in 1938)
Private Collection, France (by descent from the above. Sold: Sotheby’s, London, 27th June 2001, lot 104)
Richard Green Fine Paintings, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Exposition des œuvres d'Eugène Boudin, 1899, no. 185
London, Grafton Gallery, Sisley et Boudin, 1905, no. 17
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Boudin, 1923, no. 36
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition Boudin, 1927, no. 29