Beach Scene at Deauville (Primary Title)
Eugène Boudin, French, 1824 - 1898 (Artist)
The sea captivated Eugène Boudin, the son of a mariner, and his works depict a wide range of marine interests and activities, from the new fashion of bathing to more workaday pursuits like fishing and boating. In the 1860s, Boudin turned his attention to the visitors populating the new beachside resorts of Trouville and Deauville. With the completion of railway lines into the area, middle-class Parisians could easily reach the channel coast for leisure. Boudin portrayed such subjects with ambiguity—once referring to upper-class Parisians as “gilded parasites”— yet he also remarked, “Don’t the bourgeois . . . have the right to be fixed on canvas, to be brought to the light?”
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 Studio of Light, MuMa, Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, April 16 - September 26, 2016
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 Studio of Light, MuMa, Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, April 16 - September 26, 2016
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