Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)

Honfleur, trois-mâts au port

Details

Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
Honfleur, trois-mâts au port
signed 'E Boudin' (lower left)
oil on panel
7½ x 10½in. (19 x 26.6cm.)
Painted circa 1880-1885

Provenance

Paul César Helleu, Paris; His sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 March 1928, lot 33 (12,500FFr), where purchased by the family of the present owner.

Literature

R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, vol. II, Paris, 1973, no. 1428 (illustrated p.65).

Lot Essay

Paul César Helleu and Boudin first met in 1894 in Trouville. Helleu, himself an artist, is known to have owned twelve works by Boudin: one oil painting (the present work) and eleven pastels, which were all sold at his sale at Hôtel Drouot on 28 March 1928.

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