Background

Eugène Louis Boudin was born on July 12, 1824 in Honfleur, France. He was a son of a harbor pilot. Boudin lived most of his life in the north of France and briefly in Belgium.

Education

Eugène studied painting in Le Havre and later in Paris under the guidance of Eugene Isabey, a noted marine painter.

Career

Early in his life, Boudin worked at his father's stationery store and some time later, he opened his own small shop. At that time, the painter got acquainted with other painters, such as Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Thomas Couture, who encouraged him to follow an artistic career. At the age of twenty two, Boudin became a full-time painter.

In 1857, Eugène met Claude Monet, who would later persuade him to become a landscape painter. Two years later, in 1959, Boudin held his first solo exhibition at Paris Salon. During that time, Charles Baudelaire, who introduced Boudin's works to the public, played an important role in Eugèn's life.

In 1861, Boudin divided his time between Paris in winter and the Normandy coast in summer. To earn extra cash, he painted tourists on the beach.

In 1873, the painter took part in the first Impressionist exhibition. Financial success came in 1881 with the art dealer Paul Durand Ruel, who bought his work. Also, since 1870's, Boudin traveled extensively, visiting such countries, as Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy.

Despite the fact, that Boudin was a prolific painter, it was only in the 1880's, when he received significant professional recognition.

Achievements

• In 1881, Boudin received a third place medal at the Paris Salon. Some time later, in 1889, he attained a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle. In 1892, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour.
  
  The artist's works are kept in the collections of numerous institutions and museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and others.

Works

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  • View from the Camaret Heights

  • Near Faou

  • Plougastel, the Ferry Passage

  • Channel in Brussels

  • The Port of Deauville

  • Trouville, the Beach at Low Tide

  • Beach Scene

  • Fish, Skate and Dogfish

  • Portrieux Fishing Boats at Low Tide

  • Fisherwomen at Berck

  • Douarnenez, Fishing Boats at Dockside

  • The Capture of the 'Petit Rodeur'

  • Fields in Fervaques

  • Elegant Women on the Beach

  • Coast of Brittany

  • The Trouville Heights

  • Empress Eugenie on the beach at Trouville

  • Camaret, the Jetty

  • Channel at Allèe Verte in Brussels

  • Beach Scene

  • Etaples, Boats in Port

  • Market at Trouville

  • River near hospital

  • Camaret, the Port

  • Trouville

  • Fervaques, Garden and House of Monsieur Jacuette

  • The Fish Market, Rotterdam

  • Pheasant, Duck and Fruit

  • Harbour at Camaret

  • The Beach

  • Strand in Trouville

  • Three Masted Ship in Port, Bordeaux

  • The Beach at Trouville

  • Rotterdam. A Corner of the Basin

  • Portrieux

  • The Port of Landerneau - Finistere

  • Sky

  • The Port of Trouville

  • Beach Scene, Trouville

  • Farm near Quimper

  • The Beach at Trouville

  • Le Havre. Avent Port.

  • Sailing Boats at Quay

  • Local Pilgrimmage at Landerneau

  • Camaret, Three Masters Anchored in the Harbor

  • The Shore at Plougastel

  • Evening, Le Havre

  • Fishermen by the Water

  • Trouville, Beach Scene

  • Seascape

  • Fisherwives Waiting for the Boats to Return

  • The Trouville Jetty

  • Bordeaux

  • Trouville, Black Rocks

  • Deauville, the Docks

  • Park Cordieres a Trouville

  • The Entrance

  • Camaret, Low Tide

  • Plougastel, the Ferry Passage

  • The Manet Family picnicking

  • Figures on the Beach at Trouville

  • Rotterdam, Le Pont de Bourse

  • Trouville

  • Camaret, Le Toulinguet

  • On the Beach

  • The Ferry at Plougastel

  • Fishwomen Seated on the Beach at Berck

  • The Road from Trouville to Honfleur

  • Market Day at Trouville, Normandy

  • Mullet and Fish

  • The Pilgrimage to Cythera (after Watteau)

  • Trouville, Fish Market

  • The beach at Trouville

  • Women on the Beach, Rough Seas

  • Fishing Boats at Berck

  • The Valley of the Touques

  • Fishwomen at Berck

  • The Port of Camaret

  • Deauville, Docked Boats

  • Approaching Storm

  • Le Havre, the regatta festival

  • On the Beach

  • Princess Pauline Metternich on the Beach

  • Low Tide Near Honfleur

  • Untitled

  • Return of the Terre Neuvier

  • Cows on the Riverbanks of the Touques

  • Norman Beach, Arcenciel

  • The Beach at Trouville

  • Marines Landing in Brest Harbor

  • Fish Market

  • The Market at Landenneau

  • Study of fishing boats

  • Near Honfleur

  • Pier Deauville

  • Near Rotterdam

  • Plougastel, Women Waiting for the Ferry

  • The Spanish quay in Rotterdam Sun

  • The port Portrieux at low tide

  • Portrieux Boats at Anchor in Port

  • Trouville, Shore and Rocks

  • The Mouth of the Elorn in the Area of Brest

  • White Clouds over the Estuary

  • The Tower Malakoff and the Trouville Shore

  • The Beach

  • Beach Scene, Trouville

  • Fruit and Vegetables with a Parrot

  • The port of Bordeaux

  • View at Saint-Quay-Portriaux

  • The beach at Deauville

  • The Vauban Basin at Havre

  • Rotterdam, the Pont de la Bourse

  • La Place de la Gare a Deauville

  • The port Portrieux

  • Le Havre, Three Master at Anchor in the Harbor

  • Women Fishing for Shrimp at Kerhor

  • The Beach at Trouville

  • Trouville, Beach Scene

  • Trouville, the Port

  • Deauville, Low Tide

  • Bathers on the Beach at Trouville

  • Rotterdam, the Pont de la Bourse

  • Sailboats near Trouville

  • Laundresses on the Banks of the Port of Trouville

  • The Coastline at Plougastel

  • Beach Scene, Trouville

  • High seas

  • Madame S. with Her Children in Their Garden at Trouville

  • By the Bathing Machines

  • Beach at Trouville

  • Dordrecht, The Great Church from the Canal

  • The Entrance to the Port of Honfleur

  • Beach Scene at Trouville

  • The Harvest near Trouville

  • Strand in Trouville

  • Le Havre. Entrance to the Port.

  • Bordeaux, Boats on the Garonne

  • Entrance to Port of Havre

  • The Port of Bordeaux

  • Crinolines on the Beach

  • Portrait of the Artist's Father (Leonard-Sebastien Boudin)

  • Pasture at Deauville

  • The Shore at Plougastel

  • Trouville, Le Chemin de la Corderie

  • The Village and the Port on the River

  • The Seashore

  • Laundresses on the Banks of the river

  • The Beach at Villerville

  • Cattle market at Daoulas, Brittany

  • On the Beach

  • The Garden

  • Fervaques, the Main Street

  • The Beach at Trouville

  • The Merchant Dock

  • Beach Scene, Trouville

  • Cows in a Meadow on the Banks of the Toques

  • The port Portrieux at low tide unloading fish

  • Still Life with Skate

  • The port Portrieux at low tide

  • Seehafen

  • Figures on the beach at Trouville

  • The Francois Ier Tower at Le Havre

  • Trouville

  • Study of Cows

  • Trouville, Beach Scene

  • The Fisherman, Low Tide

  • Unloading the Newfoundland Fishing Boat

  • Deauville, the Harbor

  • Estuary at Trouville

  • Fishing Boats Aground and at Sea

  • Camaret, The Toulinguet

  • Rotterdam, the Commodities Exchange Port

  • Fishermen's Wives at the Seaside

  • Canal near Brussels

  • Flowers and Fruit in a Garden

  • Trouville, Beach Scene

  • Near Camaret

  • Low Tide at Trouville

  • The Ferry to Deauville

  • Camaret, the Bay

  • Fishermen of Kerhor Receiving a Blessing at Plougastel

  • Le Havre. Basin of Eure.

  • Le Havre, Francais tower

  • Portrieux

  • The Saint-Simeon Farm

  • Dusk over the port of Le Havre

  • Trouville

  • Scheveningen, Boats Aground on the Shore

Views

Quotations: "Anything painted directly, on the spot, always has a strength, a power, a lively touch that is lost in the studio. Your first impression is the right one. Stick to it and refuse to budge."

"To steep oneself in the sky. To capture the tenderness of the clouds. To let the cloud masses float in the background, far off in the gray mist, and then make the blue blaze forth."

"I am a loner, a daydreamer who has been content to remain in his part of the world and look at the sky. The future will treat me as it does all of us. I am very much afraid it may be oblivion."

"I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea."

Personality

Boudin was a sane, careful craftsman with a serene vision of the world.

Connections

Eugène Boudin married Marie-Anne Gédès on January 14, 1863. For more than 30 years, they lived in poverty.

Wife:

Marie-Anne Gédès

Friend:

Claude Monet

mentor:

Eugène Isabey

Acquaintance:

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Acquaintance:

Thomas Couture

References

• Eugene Boudin (Crown Art Library)
  1986
• Eugène Boudin
  1968
• 557 Color Paintings of Eugene Boudin (Eugène Boudin) - French Landscape Painter (July 12, 1824 - August 8, 1898)
  2012
• Eugene Boudin: 400+ Impressionist Paintings — Impressionism
  2011
• Eugene Boudin: 122 Masterpieces (Annotated Masterpieces)
  2014