Seaside, Port of Honfleur

Art Institute of Chicago

Seaside, Port of Honfleur

Eugène Louis Boudin

Date
c. 1860
Medium
Pastel on blue wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

Boudin was a native of Honfleur, one of the most picturesque harbor communes in the French region of Normandy. Self-taught, he started experimenting with pastel in the 1850s. This sort of landscape, likely made en plein air, would prove extremely influential to the young Claude Monet.

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Object type
AAT300033973

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