Le Havre, 1883

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Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection)

Accession Number

2015.19.58

Artists / Makers

Eugène Boudin (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: E.Boudin.83.; lower right: Le Havre

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Durand-Ruel et Cie
Norman, William B.
Walker, Edward C. and Mary Emma Griffin

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.