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Lot Essay
Manuel Schmit has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Eugène Boudin was born at Honfleur, France, his father, originally a seafarer, moved the family to Le Havre where he set up as a stationer and framer when Boudin was eleven. Initially Boudin worked for his father and it was perhaps this exposure to local artists through the framing of their works which first inspired him to paint. He took up painting full-time at the age of twenty two gaining a scholarship to study in Paris six years later. In 1859 he exhibited at the Paris salon for the first time and was favorably reviewed by the famous essayist, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire (d. 1867). In the late 1850's Boudin met Claude Monet (d. 1926), sharing a studio for a brief period the pair remained life-long friends with Monet crediting Boudin as one of his early influences. Boudin, alongside Monet, counted his works amongst the 165 exhibits shown at the first Impressionist exhibition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris in 1874. Boudin is known to be one of the early exponents of painting en plein air (painting outdoors) a practice that was encouraged by his friend the Dutch painter Johan Jongkind (d. 1891).
Eugène Boudin was born at Honfleur, France, his father, originally a seafarer, moved the family to Le Havre where he set up as a stationer and framer when Boudin was eleven. Initially Boudin worked for his father and it was perhaps this exposure to local artists through the framing of their works which first inspired him to paint. He took up painting full-time at the age of twenty two gaining a scholarship to study in Paris six years later. In 1859 he exhibited at the Paris salon for the first time and was favorably reviewed by the famous essayist, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire (d. 1867). In the late 1850's Boudin met Claude Monet (d. 1926), sharing a studio for a brief period the pair remained life-long friends with Monet crediting Boudin as one of his early influences. Boudin, alongside Monet, counted his works amongst the 165 exhibits shown at the first Impressionist exhibition at 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris in 1874. Boudin is known to be one of the early exponents of painting en plein air (painting outdoors) a practice that was encouraged by his friend the Dutch painter Johan Jongkind (d. 1891).