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Eugène Boudin

Beach at Trouville, 1864/1865

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 92

Medium

oil on wood

Dimensions

overall (including surrounding strips of wood, approx. .005): 27 x 49.1 cm (10 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

framed: 41.3 x 63.3 x 9.5 cm (16 1/4 x 24 15/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.12

Artists / Makers

Eugène Boudin (artist) French, 1824 - 1898

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Inscription

lower right: E. Boudin.

Provenance

Dieterle, Paris. Paul Gerson, New York. Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere [d.1940]; (his sale, Christie's, London, 19 December 1941, no. 34); purchased by (Arthur Tooth and Sons, London and Paris) for Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.

[1] According to annotated copy of the sales catalogue in NGA curatorial files. This is almost certainly the picture recorded as Boudin, "At Deauville" in Arthur Tooth records, volume XXI, London Branch Stock Inventory, p. 85 (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, accession no. 860679), which was sold with another Rothermere picture to Molyneux on the day of the Christie's sale.

Associated Names

Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Dieterle
Gerson, Paul
Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, Harold Sidney
Molyneux, Edward H., Captain
Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Arthur

Exhibition History

1942: Nineteenth Century French Paintings, National Gallery, London, 1942, no. 68,as La Plage à Deauville.

1952: French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist [according to Small French Paintings (1978)].

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 16, repro.

1989: Paintings by Eugène Boudin from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989, no cat.

1990: Französische Impressionisten und ihre Wegbereiter aus der National Gallery of Art, Washington und dem Cincinnati Art Museum, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, 1990, no. 30, repro.

1992: From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metroplitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Greece, Athens, 1992-1993, no. 44, 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. 11, 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.

2009: Loan to display with permanent collection, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland, 2009-2010, no catalogue.

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.

Bibliography

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 42, repro.

1978: Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 6, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 443, no. 634, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 61, 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. 30, repro.

1991: Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 260, color repro.