Jetty and Wharf at Trouville
1863
Artist, French, 1824 - 1898


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 82
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 34.8 x 58 cm (13 11/16 x 22 13/16 in.)
framed: 57.8 x 81.3 x 10.8 cm (22 3/4 x 32 x 4 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1983.1.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Andrew T. Reid [1863-1940], Auchterarder House, Auchterarder, Tayside, Scotland, by 1937;[1] (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 March 1942, no. 80); bought by (Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, Paris and New York) for Mrs. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, London, until at least 1954.[2] (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York); sold 1963 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.
[1] The painting was published as being in Reid's collection in Ruth L. Benjamin, Eugène Boudin, New York, 1937.
[2] Arthur Tooth records, Volume XXI, London Branch stock inventory, p. 88, Getty Research Institute, accession no. 860679. The painting was lent to an exhibition of the Pleydell-Bouverie collection held at the Tate in 1954.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1942
Nineteenth Century French Paintings, National Gallery, London, 1942, no. 22.
1949
Anthology: French Pictures from Private Collections, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1949, no. 1.
1954
The Pleydell-Bouverie Collection of Impressionist and Other Paintings, The Tate Gallery, London, 1954, no. 4.
1960
A Selection of Important 19th Century French Masters, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1960, no. 2, repro.
1966
French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 11, repro.
1986
Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.
1989
Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 29, repro.
1999
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.
Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 10, repro.
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.
2016
Normandy Impressionist Festival: Eugène Boudin, L'atelier de la lumière, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, 2016, no. 76, repro.
Bibliography
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 63, repro.
1990
Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum. Exh. cat. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990: no. 29, repro.
1991
Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 5, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: E. Boudin. 63
Wikidata ID
Q20188637