Three Women at Trouville, c. 1865

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 77

Medium

watercolor and graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 13.1 × 17.3 cm (5 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.142

Artists / Makers

Eugène Boudin (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: E.B.; lower left in graphite: Trouville

Marks and Labels

[illegible]

Provenance

Captain Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], London and Paris; purchased August 15, 1955 by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1970.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Molyneux, Edward H., Captain

Exhibition History

1952: French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1961: French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 6, repro.

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

Bibliography

1952: Molyneux 1952, [p.6].

1961: French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961: 6.