Musée No:583.006
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Deauville. The Shore
Artist: Eugène Boudin
Dated: 1896
Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. He was a marine painter, and expert in painting everything to do with the sea and along its shores. Corot called him the "King of the skies". Born in the gorgeous French coastal town of Honfleur, he was the son of a harbour pilot, and at age 10 he worked on a steamboat that ran between Le Havre and Honfleur. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce and started painting full-time.
In the late 1850s Boudin met the young Claude Monet, then only 18, and persuaded him to give up his caricature drawings and to become a landscape painter, helping to instil in him a love of bright hues and the play of light on water. The two remained lifelong friends. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical or innovator.
Artist: Eugène Boudin
Dated: 1896
Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. He was a marine painter, and expert in painting everything to do with the sea and along its shores. Corot called him the "King of the skies". Born in the gorgeous French coastal town of Honfleur, he was the son of a harbour pilot, and at age 10 he worked on a steamboat that ran between Le Havre and Honfleur. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce and started painting full-time.
In the late 1850s Boudin met the young Claude Monet, then only 18, and persuaded him to give up his caricature drawings and to become a landscape painter, helping to instil in him a love of bright hues and the play of light on water. The two remained lifelong friends. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical or innovator.