Eugène Louis Boudin

Boudin worked between 1824 and 1898 across painter. The registers place that work in landscape painting and marine art. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Training under Eugène Isabey is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape and marine. Gustave Courbet and Alexandre Calame are recorded as an influence. Works named in the authority record are Harbor at Lormont, Shore of Trouville, The Port of Bordeaux, The Beach at Trouville, the Empress Eugénie and Washerwomen by the River. Work by Eugène Louis Boudin is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.

• Name — Eugène Boudin • Birth Name — Eugène Louis Boudin • Born — 12 July 1824 • Birthplace — Honfleur, France • Died — 8 August 1898 • Place of death — Deauville, France • Field — Painting • Movement — Impressionism

• Illustration — Le Havre, The Port (1884), Brooklyn Museum Born at Honfleur, Boudin was the son of a harbor pilot, and at age 10 the young boy worked on a steamboat that ran between Le Havre and Honfleur. In 1835 the family moved to Le Havre, where Boudin's father opened a store for stationery and picture frames. Here the young Eugene worked, later opening his own small shop. Boudin's father had thus abandoned seafaring, and his son gave it up too, having no real vocation for it, though he preserved to his last days much of a sailor's character: frankness, accessibility, and open-heartedness. In his shop, in which pictures were framed, Boudin came into contact with artists working in the area and exhibited in the shop the paintings of Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet, who, along with Jean-Baptiste Isabey and Thomas Couture whom he met during this time, encouraged young Boudin to follow an artistic career. At the age of 22 he abandoned the world of commerce, started painting full-time, and travelled to Paris the following year and then through Flanders. In 1850 he earned a scholarship that enabled him to move to Paris, where he enrolled as a student in the studio of Eugène Isabey and worked as a copyist at the Louvre. To supplement his income he often returned to paint in Normandy and, from 1855, made regular trips to Brittany. On 14 January 1863 he married the 28-year-old Breton woman Marie-Anne Guédès in Le Havre and set up home in Paris. • Illustration — Sailboats at Trouville (1884), Yale University Art Gallery, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Dutch 17th-century masters profoundly influenced him, and on meeting the Dutch painter Johan Jongkind, who had already made his mark in French artistic circles, Boudin was advised by his new friend to paint outdoors (en plein air). He also worked with Troyon and Isabey, and in 1859 met Gustave Courbet who introduced him to Charles Baudelaire, the first critic to draw Boudin's talents to public attention when the artist made his debut at the Paris Salon of 1859. In 1857/58 Boudin befriended the young Claude Monet, then only 17, and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and to become a landscape painter, helping to instil in him a love of bright hues and the play of light on water later evident in Monet's Impressionist paintings. The two remained lifelong friends and Monet later paid tribute to Boudin's early influence. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, but never considered himself a radical or innovator. • Illustration — The Beach near Trouville, circa 1865 Both Boudin and Monet lived abroad during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Boudin in Antwerp and Monet in London; from 1873 to 1880 the Boudins lived in Bordeaux. His growing reputation enabled him to travel extensively at that time, visiting Belgium, the Netherlands and southern France. He continued to exhibit at the Paris Salons, receiving a third place medal at the Paris Salon of 1881, and a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. In 1892 Boudin was made a knight of the Légion d'honneur, a somewhat tardy recognition of his talents and influence on the art of his contemporaries. Late in his life, after the death of his wife in 1889, Boudin spent every winter in the south of France as a refuge from his own poor health, and from 1892 to 1895 made regular trips to Venice. In 1898, recognizing that his life was almost spent, he returned to his home at Deauville, to die on 8 August within sight of the English Channel and under the Channel skies he had painted so often. He was buried according to his wishes in the Saint-Vincent Cemetery in Montmartre, Paris.

Eugène Louis Boudin was born on 12 July 1824 in Honfleur. Boudin held the nationality of France. Boudin studied under Eugène Isabey. Boudin worked as painter. Boudin was active from 1847 to 1898. The fields Boudin worked in include landscape painting and marine art. Boudin worked in French. Boudin is placed by the collections within Impressionism. Boudin died on 8 August 1898 in Deauville. Boudin is buried at Saint-Vincent Cemetery.