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Inscription

lower right: E. Boudin-64.

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Provenance

Acquired in Boston or New York, 1866, as Beach near Scheveningen by Dr. Henry Clay Angell [d. 1911], Boston; by inheritance to his wife Martha Bartlett Angell [d. 1919], Boston; gift 1916 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;[1] 1950 to (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York);[2] sold 1951 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York;[3] bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1]Accession no. 19.99, gift of Angell made in 1916, but not accessioned by museum until 1919. See Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin XVII, no. 101 (June 1919) on the Angell gift.

[2] In partial purchase and exchange for Boston MFA 50.2716.

[3]Invoice dated 21 May 1951 to Chester Dale from E. and A. Silberman Galleries in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1915
Opening Exhibition, Robert Dawson Evans Memorial Galleries for Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1915, unnumbered checklist in Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin XIII, no. 75 (3 February 1915)
1935
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Boudin, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1935-1936, no. 1
1940
Golden Gate International Exhibition, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940, no. 233
1942
French Impressionist Paintings, exhibition to inaugurate McCormick Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1942, no cat.
1951
Portraits, Figures and Landscapes, The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, 1951, no. 4
1959
Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1989
Paintings by Eugène Boudin from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.
2007
Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no cat.
2010
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

Bibliography

1965
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 61, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 18
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 2:432, color repro.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 12, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 40, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 440, no. 629, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 59, repro.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 352, no. 285, color repro.

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