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Trouville

Eugène Boudin1871

The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States

From the early 1860s, Boudin depicted elegant tourists on the Normandy coast. Trouville had recently been established as a fashionable summer resort with its own casino and luxury hotels. Boudin's attitude toward his subjects was not necessarily sympathetic, and in 1867, he described such scenes of upper-class enjoyment as "a disgusting masquerade" and his subjects as "ghastly parasites." This particular scene may have been painted in September 1871, after he had returned from Antwerp, where he had sought refuge during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.

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  • Title: Trouville
  • Creator: Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824-1898)
  • Date Created: 1871
  • External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
  • Roles: Artist: Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824-1898)
  • Provenance: Cyrus J. Lawrence, New York; Sale, American Art Association, Mendelssohn Hall, New York, January 21-22, 1910, no. 55; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase [under the alias of Henry Chester]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
  • Object Type: oil paintings
  • Medium: oil on panel
  • Exhibitions: The Road to Impressionism: Barbizon Landscapes from the Walters Art Museum. The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis; The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh. 2008-2009., The Road to Impressionism: Landscapes from Corot to Manet. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004-2005., Before Monet: Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters: Highlights from The Walters Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1998.
  • Dimensions: H: 7 1/16 x W: 18 1/4 in. (18 x 46.4 cm); Framed H: 16 5/8 x W: 27 1/4 x D: 3 in. (42.23 x 69.22 x 7.62 cm)
  • Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1910
  • Classification: Painting & Drawing
  • Accession Number: 37.84
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