Two Ladies Seated and a Couple Walking on the Beach

c. 1866

Eugène Boudin

Associated Names
Eugène Boudin

Artist, French, 1824 - 1898

The image is a watercolor painting depicting four individuals. Two individuals are standing on the left, while two others are seated on the right. One standing person is a man, looking leftward at a woman standing beside him. The man is wearing a black suit and a hat. The woman is facing the man and is wearing a white dress with a blue accent and a matching hat with a blue veil. On the right, two seated women are wearing long dresses and hats, with one in a brown dress and a colorful hat, and the other wearing a dark dress with a yellow shawl. Details of their faces and hair are minimal, and they are set against a light background.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Carroll Carstairs, New York); acquired November 1948 by Paul Mellon [1907-1999]; gift 1985 to NGA.

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. 216, repro.

2007

  • Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2007 - 2008, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce; Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition 1941-1966. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966: 216 (as "On the Beach").

Inscriptions

upper right illegible inscription in graphite; lower right artist's stamp in blue ink: E.B (Lugt 828)

Wikidata ID

Q64560170

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