Eugène Boudin
Le Havre: The Outer Harbor at Sunset, 1882
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5 further works by Boudin
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Oil on canvas, 54,5 x 74,5 cm
Signed, dated and inscribed lower right: E. Boudin 82 Le Havre
Inv.-no. MB-Bou-04
After Marseille, Le Havre was the second-largest port in France. Eugène Boudin’s depiction of the modernized outer harbor does not disclose its economic significance. The sun, which is about to set, is positioned in the center of the picture. This frontality does not exist in the Dutch tradition of seascapes; it is modeled after Nicolas Poussin and William Turner. Boudin achieved a unified mood by allowing the sky to reflect in the water.
Impression, soleil levant: L'histoire vraie du chef-d'œuvre de Claude Monet, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, September 18, 2014–January 18, 2015, no. 45
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
n.d., Séguy Collection, Paris
March 21, 1898, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Séguy Collection, lot 3
March 17, 1969, Palais Galliera, Paris, lot 31
December 10, 1969, Sotheby’s, London, lot 9
ca. 1973, Private collection
December 4, 1974, Sotheby’s, London, lot 12
July 1, 1980, Sotheby’s, London, lot 16
Private collection, United Kingdom, acquired at the above sale
n.d., Private collection, United Kingdom, inherited from the above
February 9, 2012, Sotheby’s, London, lot 128, consigned by the above
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824–1898: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, vol. 2, Paris 1973, no. 1683, p. 149, ill. p. 149
Impression, soleil levant: L'histoire vraie du chef-d'œuvre de Claude Monet, exh. cat. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 2014, no. 45, ill. p. 103
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 3, ill. p. 95
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