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Eugène Boudin

Festival in the Harbor of Honfleur, 1858

Not on View

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 41 x 59.3 cm (16 1/8 x 23 3/8 in.)

framed: 62.2 x 81.3 x 6.3 cm (24 1/2 x 32 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1983.1.10

Artists / Makers

Eugène Boudin (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

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Inscription

lower left: Boudin 5[8?]; lower right: Hon[fl]eur

Provenance

Private collection, Bordeaux. (Galerie Schmit, Paris).[1] (Bernheim, Paris); sold 1959 to (Wildenstein and Co., London, New York and Paris);[2] sold 1959 to Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, VIrginia; gift 1983 to NGA.

[1] Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, 3 vols., Paris, 1973: 1;no. 191.

[2] Wildenstein acquisition date and source provided in letter dated 14 December 1998, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bernheim
Galerie Schmidt
Mellon, Paul
Private Collection, Bordeaux
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 9, repro.

1982: Manet and Modern Paris, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982, no. 95, repro.

1989: Paintings by Eugène Boudin from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.

2003: Manet and the Sea, Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 2003-2004, unnumbered catalogue, pl. 82.

2007: Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no cat.

2007: Eugène Boudin, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2007-2008, no cat.

2009: Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2009-2010, no catalogue.

2011: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 2011, not in catalogue (shown only in Tokyo and Kyoto).

2013: Eugène Boudin, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2013, no. 4, repro.

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.

Bibliography

1966: Goldwater, Robert. "The Glory that was France." Art News 65 (March 1966): 40, repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 63, repro.