The Beach at Trouville, Stormy Weather (Primary Title)
Eugène Boudin, French, 1824 - 1898 (Artist)
This painting combines Boudin’s love for the ocean with his interest in weather. The stormy sky dominates the beach, shown at low tide and devoid of human presence. Fellow artist Camille Corot once called Boudin “the king of skies”; here the sky becomes the true subject of the artist’s dramatic work.
Inscribed along bottom: "E. Boudin A mon ami Morlot 1894. " (Alphonse Morlot, 1838-1918, was a landscape and still life painter).
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
2019-2020: "Van Gogh Monet Degas, The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", Palazzo Zabarella, Padua, Italy, October 26, 2019 - March 1, 2020
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
Eugène Boudin: The First Impressionist, VMFA, Nov. 14, 2007-Feb. 17, 2008
La peinture française au XIXe siècle, Musée du Prince Paul, Belgrade, 1939, no. 1 (illus.)
Salon of 1889, Paris, no. 235
2019-2021: Van Gogh, Monet, Degas, and Their Times: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN, February 2 - May 5, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 4, 2020 - January 10, 2021
2018: "Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts", The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, March 17 - July 15, 2018; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 22 - September 22, 2019
Eugène Boudin: The First Impressionist, VMFA, Nov. 14, 2007-Feb. 17, 2008
La peinture française au XIXe siècle, Musée du Prince Paul, Belgrade, 1939, no. 1 (illus.)
Salon of 1889, Paris, no. 235
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