Festival in the Harbor of Honfleur
1858
Artist, French, 1824 - 1898
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on wood
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1983.1.10
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
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.
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, pl. 8.
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.
Inscriptions
lower left: Boudin 5[8?]; lower right: Hon[fl]eur
Wikidata ID
Q20188396