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Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)

Lot 163
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Lot 163 | Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)
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Eugène Boudin (1824-1898)

Laveuses au bord de la Touques

signé et daté 'E. Boudin 95.' (en bas à droite)

huile sur panneau

26 x 41.5 cm.

Peint en 1895



signed and dated 'E. Boudin 95.' (lower right)

oil on panel

10 ¼ x 16 ¼ in.

Painted in 1895





Provenance

André Schœller, Paris (avant 1955).

Collection particulière, Paris (avant 1956).

Jules Thinet, Paris.

Collection particulière, France (par descendance); vente, Christie's, Paris, 14 juin 2010, lot 46.

Acquis au cours de cette vente par le propriétaire actuel.



Literature

R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin, Paris, 1973, vol. II, p. 243, no. 1942 (illustré; erronément daté '1885').



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Hector Brame, Eug. Boudin, Peintures, pastels, aquarelles, novembre-décembre 1956, no. 12.



Further details

Parmi les plus grands maîtres de la peinture de la fin du XIXème siècle, Eugène Boudin est réputé pour ses vues de plages, ses paysages de mer et ses ports fourmillants du nord de la France. Cependant, s'inspirant du travail de Charles-François Daubigny et de Camille Corot, l'artiste s'attacha aussi à peindre de modestes laveuses sur le bord d'une rivière, et notamment sur les rives de la Touques en Normandie, offrant à ces ouvrières d'être le centre d'intérêt de chaque composition.
"Ces peintures développent un sujet qui se situe à l'antithèse des scènes de plages d'Eugène Boudin. A la différence des personnages de la haute société qui passent du bon temps sur le sable, ces laveuses travaillent péniblement toute la journée. Eugène Boudin les représente rarement tournées les unes vers les autres à bavarder; au lieu de cela, elles sont vues par derrière, le dos courbé, concentrées sur leur tâche. [...] Par la nature de leur travail, ces laveuses apportent au peintre un sujet idéal lui permettant de combiner facilement l'observation de la nature humaine avec une représentation de l'eau, du ciel et du paysage. Dans cette série Boudin explore une variété d'harmonies de couleurs, qui compose des peintures riches d'effets de lumières, comme pourrait l'être une tapisserie." (V. Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville, cat. exp., Glasgow Museums, Glasgow, 1992, p. 123).

Eugène Boudin is famous among the great late 19th-century painters for his beach views, his seascapes and his bustling northern French ports. But, inspired by the work of Daubigny and Corot, the artist also like to paint modest washerwomen on riverbanks, in particular the banks of the Touques river in Normandy, making these working-class women the central focus of his composition.
"In their subject these paintings are the antithesis of Boudin's beach scenes. Unlike the fashionable visitors idling in the sand, these local women are hard at work. Boudin rarely shows them turning to each other and chattering; instead they are seen from behind, their backs bent, intent on their task. [...] By the nature of their task, these washerwomen provided Boudin with an ideal subject combining as it did observation of the human figure with description of water, sky and landscape. In a series of small, almost repetitive pictures, Boudin explored a variety of colour harmonies, often achieving rich tapestry-like effects"
(V. Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville, exh. cat., Glasgow Museums, Glasgow, 1992, p. 123).
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