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Eugène Boudin
French, 1824–1898
Dunkerque
1889
The sky dominates this view of Dunkerque, a busy port in Northern France where Boudin painted over a dozen seascapes. The sea is calm, but a breeze is blowing, dispersing the smoke and making the flags flutter on the ships’ mastheads. These subtle details reveal the artist’s fascination with capturing the effects of weather on a specific location.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
14 3/8 x 23 1/16 in. (36.5 x 58.6 cm)
Frame: 2 1/2 x 21 11/16 x 29 9/16 in. (6.4 x 55.1 x 75.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.535
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Eugène Boudin, Dunkerque, 1889, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.535
Select Bibliography
The Art institute of Chicago. Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Eugène Boudin. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1935.
Durand-Ruel Galleries. Eugène Boudin. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1936.
Durand-Ruel Galleries. Boudin to Cézanne. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Durand-Ruel Galleries, 1938.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956.
Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.
Widener, P. A. B. Catalogue of Paintings forming the Private Collection of P. A. B. Widener. 2 volumes. Paris: Goupil, Monzi, Joyant, 1885-1900.
Benjamin, Ruth L. Eugène Boudin. New York: Raymond & Raymond, 1937.
D[imand]., M. "Great Impressionists in Review: from Boudin to Cézanne." Art News 36 (24 December 1938).
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, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
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.
Schmit, Robert. Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898. Paris: R. Schmit, 1973.
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.
Genauer. "Three Galleries Offer French Paintigns." New York World Telegram, 10 December 1938.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1963.
The artist, sold to Durand-Ruel, 9 Mar. 1891; [Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1891–92, sold to Widener, 6 Feb. 1892]; Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Philadelphia (1892–1907, sold to Durand-Ruel, 27 Feb. 1907); [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1907–40, sold to Clark, 2 Dec. 1940];¹ Robert Sterling Clark (1940–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. Ruth L. Benjamin (Eugène Boudin, 1937) p. 190, states that this work was in a private collection, Paris, some time after 1907, and further wrote in a 1958 letter in the Clark’s curatorial file that “this picture belonged to a private collection in Paris before Durand-Ruel bought it back.” Benjamin does not provide dates for this ownership, and there is no further known documentation for this history.
