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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Boudin, a precursor of Impressionism, first visited Trouville, a fashionable seaside resort, in the early 1860s, and returned there throughout the rest of his career. Trouville attracted a number of artists, including Monet, Whistler, Courbet, Degas and Manet. Boudin painted many variations of the small and quiet Port of Trouville, from different positions and angles, and in his late career he executed many paintings of vessels, such as in this picture, resting on the keels at low tide. This work depicting a large boat with a French flag to the left resting off balance on its right side is a picture of calm, and it shows Boudin's preference for depicting ports at periods of rest, devoid of the noise found in working ports. The boat resembles that of in Boudin's Trouville. La Jetée Marée Basse (1889, private collection) and the composition is reminiscent of Dunkerque. Voiliers A Quai (1891, private collection). | Subjects: | marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Boudin, Eugène Louis (French painter, 1824-1898) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8517... | Go to resource |
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