Eugène Boudin
French, 1824–1898
Boats Returning to Port, Trouville
1894
Boudin rarely painted boats on the open water, focusing more often on port scenes. In this image, sailboats and a steamship head for the harbor to shelter from bad weather. The artist’s rough, distinct brushstrokes suggest the choppy surface of the water, agitated by the energy of a gathering storm.
| Medium | oil on canvas, marouflaged to aluminum |
| Dimensions | 25 7/8 x 36 5/16 in. (65.7 x 92.2 cm) Frame: 33 1/4 x 43 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (84.5 x 111.1 x 7 cm) |
| Object Number | 1973.7 |
| Acquisition | Bequest of Mrs. Osborne Howes, 1973 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Eugène Boudin, Boats Returning to Port, Trouville, 1894, oil on canvas, marouflaged to aluminum. Clark Art Institute, Bequest of Mrs Osborne Howes, 1973.7
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Schmit, Robert. Eugène Boudin, 18241898, Premier Supplément. Paris: Schmit, 1984.
Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.
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Provenance
[Durand-Ruel, Paris]; [J. Eastman Chase, Boston, sold to Cox, 10 Sept. 1902]; W. E. Cox, Brookline, Mass. (from 1902); Mrs. Osborne Howes (Mildred Cox Howes), Chesnut Hill, Mass., by descent (d. 1973, bequeathed to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1973.
