Cleveland Museum of Art
The Dock of Deauville
Eugène BoudinLinkedCulture matchlcp-918568fef17f
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on wood panel
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 118042
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This painting treats a common theme in Eugène Boudin's mature art: ships at harbor. Boudin typically did not depict the busy commercial life or human tasks related to ships; rather, he seemed always to strive for an overall mood of calm, harmony, and light. Although Boudin's brushwork was quite sketchy at this time, he was still able to suggest the complex sails and structures of large vessels. Here he rubbed light tones around the ships' masts, often overlapping the darker lines of the wood and rigging with white or gray tones as if to evoke the passing wind and shifting positions common to nautical life.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Gustave Hoche, Paris. His sale (vente Gustave H. . .), Paris, Drouot, 22 February 1895 (lot 13), ff 900 (perhaps bought in) (price according to Frick Library copy). His sale (vente de M. X . . .), Paris, Drouot, 18 March 1898 (lot 11), ff 560. Coralie Walker Hanna, Cleveland. Gift of Leonard C. Hanna to the CMA in 1939.
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