Thursday, June 19, 2025

 Eugène Boudin
(1824-1898)

Eugène Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. His pastels, summary and economic, garnered the splendid eulogy of Baudelaire; and Corot called him the "King of the skies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Boudin

Le Havre: The Outer Harbor at Sunset
1882
Oil on canvas
54.5 x 74.5 cm
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
https://sammlung.museum-barberini.de/en/MB-Bou-04_eugene-boudin-le-havre-the-outer-harbor-at-sunset

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