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: 52.39 × 72.87 cm (20 5/8 × 28 11/16 in.)
framed: 83.19 × 103.51 × 10.8 cm (32 3/4 × 40 3/4 × 4 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.58
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William B. Norman [d. 1906];[1] sold 1899 to (Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris and New York). Edward C. [d. 1915] and Mary Griffin [1855-1937] Walker, Willistead Manor, Walkerville, Ontario, and Washington, by 1905;[2] bequest 4 May 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Norman, a well-known auctioneer, established the Fifth Avenue Auction Galleries in 1883, and later the Tiffany Studios.
[2] The painting was included in a 1905 exhibition of the Walker collection at the Detroit Museum of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1905
Exhibition of Paintings Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Detroit Museum of Art,1905, no. 30, as Marine.
1958
A Selection of Paintings from the Edward C. Walker and Mary Walker Collection, Willistead Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, 8-29 October 1958, no. 2, as Marine.
1959
French Masterworks: A Loan Exhibition from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1 July - 13 August 1959.
1976
Jongkind and the Pre-Impressionists: Painters of the Ecole Saint-Simeon, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, 1976-1977, no. 44, repro.
1983
La Vie Moderne: Nineteenth Century French Art from the Corcoran Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Georgia; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tampa Museum; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Akron Art Museum, 1983-1985, no. 32, repro.
Bibliography
1968
Jean-Aubry, Georges, with Robert Schmit. Eugene Boudin: 1824-1898. Paris, 1968: 69-70.
1973
Schmit, Robert. Eugéne Boudin, 1824-1898. 3 vols. Paris, 1973: 2:no. 1725.
Inscriptions
lower left: E.Boudin.83.; lower right: Le Havre
Wikidata ID
Q46631124