Entrance to the Harbor, Le Havre
1883
Artist, French, 1824 - 1898

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 118.6 x 160.2 cm (46 11/16 x 63 1/16 in.)
framed: 142.9 x 192.7 cm (56 1/4 x 75 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1983.1.16
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Duneau, Paris; sold 1902 to (Durand-Ruel, New York and Paris),[1] until at least 1940;[2] Stanley N. Barbee, New York; (Barbee sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20 April 1944, no. 30); purchased by Coblentz, USA.[3] (Wildenstein, London, New York and Paris); sold 1962 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville;[4] gift 1983 to NGA.
[1]Name of seller and date of sale to Durand-Ruel according to Robert Schmidt, Eugene Boudin (3 vols., Paris 1973), II:no. 1723 [2]Lent by Durand-Ruel to 1940 Golden Gate International Exhibition. [3]Name of purchaser according to annotated copy of sales catalogue in M. Knoelder & Co. library. [4]According to Paul Mellon records in NGA curatorial files
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1883
Possibly Salon of 1883, Paris, no. 321, as La Sortie
1905
Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Grafton Galleries, London, 1905, probably no. 3, as Leaving Port - Havre
1926
Exposition de Tableaux par Boudin, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1926-1927, no. 9, as Sortie du port du Havre.
1932
Possibly Nineteenth Century French Art, Albright Art Gallery, 1932, no. 1.
1935
Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Eugene Boudin, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1935-1936, no. 12, as Havre Harbor; Outward Bound.
1936
Eugene Boudin, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1936, no. 9, as Sortie du port du Havre.
1940
Golden Gate International Exhibition, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, 1940, no. 232, as Port of Havre.
1986
Capolavori Impressionisti dei Musei Americani, Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 1986-1987, no. 1, repro.
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.
Eugene Boudin, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2007-2008, no cat.
Bibliography
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 65, repro.
Inscriptions
lower left: E. Boudin / Le Havre 83
Wikidata ID
Q20189593