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Lot Essay
In 1870, Boudin travelled to Brussels and to Anvers, where he painted a series of views taken from the banks of the Escaux to which the present Anvers, Bateaux sur l'Escaut belongs.
Writing about Boudin and his ports, the critic Gustave Geffroy observed that, 'In love with the sea whatever the time of the day or the year, he has stopped everywhere and noted all the different aspects of the same landscape. He knows all the inlets, all the ports, all the river mouths. He paints life and solitude; the dramas occurring between the stones and the water interest him as much as the goings-on in a coastal town. He records alluvial formations, the pools of water left far inland by tides; he also records docks cluttered with high-sided vessels. He is full of the poetry of the sea and he is wholly familiar with the technique of navigation." (quoted in exh. cat. V. Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville, Glasgow, 1992).
Writing about Boudin and his ports, the critic Gustave Geffroy observed that, 'In love with the sea whatever the time of the day or the year, he has stopped everywhere and noted all the different aspects of the same landscape. He knows all the inlets, all the ports, all the river mouths. He paints life and solitude; the dramas occurring between the stones and the water interest him as much as the goings-on in a coastal town. He records alluvial formations, the pools of water left far inland by tides; he also records docks cluttered with high-sided vessels. He is full of the poetry of the sea and he is wholly familiar with the technique of navigation." (quoted in exh. cat. V. Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville, Glasgow, 1992).