Minneapolis Institute of Art
Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville
Eugène-Louis BoudinLinkedCulture matchlcp-faafa9838e17
- Date
- 1864, possibly reworked in 1869
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 10449
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
This is one of Eugène Boudin's many paintings of the Normandy coast in northern France. Around 1862 Boudin began working at Trouville, a summer resort served by the new train lines from Paris. There, well-to-do city dwellers enjoyed a new type of vacation: the beach holiday. Some people actually swam (wearing the daring new bathing costumes), but many gathered just to enjoy the sea air and socialize. Boudin's beach scenes, a new subject for painting, sold rapidly to Paris collectors. Most were smaller than this - just the size for Parisian parlors. This was the first painting purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Art after it opened in 1915. Europe
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- Credit line
- The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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