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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Each year Boudin visited the seaside resort of Trouville on the Normandy coast. At first he chose to paint the fashionable bathers on the beach but gradually he took an interest in the busy life of the port. A few of his paintings of the port area show local women busy doing the family washing. The women are shown kneeling on the sand near the quayside, at low tide, with beached fishing boats nearby. The bridge joins the towns of Trouville and Deauville. Boudin cleverly builds up the composition by playing off the diagonal of the riverbank, which moves back into the picture space and establishes a feeling of depth, with the strong horizontal of the bridge. | Subjects: | townscape; everyday life; place (Deauville) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Boudin, Eugène Louis (French painter, 1824-1898) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8299... | Go to resource |
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