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Eugène Boudin

Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 82

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall: 34.8 x 58 cm (13 11/16 x 22 13/16 in.)

framed: 57.8 x 81.3 x 10.8 cm (22 3/4 x 32 x 4 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1983.1.9

Artists / Makers

Eugène Boudin (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

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Inscription

lower right: E. Boudin. 63

Provenance

Andrew T. Reid [1863-1940], Auchterarder House, Auchterarder, Tayside, Scotland, by 1937;[1] (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 March 1942, no. 80); bought by (Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, Paris and New York) for Mrs. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie, London, until at least 1954.[2] (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York); sold 1963 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.

[1] The painting was published as being in Reid's collection in Ruth L. Benjamin, Eugène Boudin, New York, 1937.

[2] Arthur Tooth records, Volume XXI, London Branch stock inventory, p. 88, Getty Research Institute, accession no. 860679. The painting was lent to an exhibition of the Pleydell-Bouverie collection held at the Tate in 1954.

Associated Names

Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery
Mellon, Paul
Pleydell-Bouverie, Peter, Mrs.
Reid, Andrew T.
Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Arthur

Exhibition History

1942: Nineteenth Century French Paintings, National Gallery, London, 1942, no. 22.

1949: Anthology: French Pictures from Private Collections, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1949, no. 1.

1954: The Pleydell-Bouverie Collection of Impressionist and Other Paintings, The Tate Gallery, London, 1954, no. 4.

1960: A Selection of Important 19th Century French Masters, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 1960, no. 2, repro.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 11, repro.

1986: Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.

1989: Impressionisti della National Gallery of Art di Washington, Ala Napoleonica e Museo Correr, Venice; Palazzo Reale, Milan, 1989, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1990: Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 29, repro.

1999: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.

1999: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 10, repro.

2007: Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007, no cat.

2007: Eugene Boudin, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 2007-2008, no cat.

2016: Normandy Impressionist Festival: Eugène Boudin, L'atelier de la lumière, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, 2016, no. 76, repro.

Bibliography

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 63, repro.

1990: Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum. Exh. cat. Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990: no. 29, repro.

1991: Coman, Florence E. Joie de Vivre: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1991: no. 5, repro.