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Artist:
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Eugène-Louis Boudin
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Title:
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Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville
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Date:
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1864
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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26 1/2 x 41 in. (67.31 x 104.14 cm) (canvas)
35 7/8 x 50 1/4 x 4 in. (91.12 x 127.64 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 355
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This is one of Eugène Boudin's many paintings of the Normandy coast in northern France. Around 1862 Boudin began working at Trouville, a summer resort served by the new train lines from Paris. There, well-to-do city dwellers enjoyed a new type of vacation: the beach holiday. Some people actually swam (wearing the daring new bathing costumes), but many gathered just to enjoy the sea air and socialize. Boudin's beach scenes, a new subject for painting, sold rapidly to Paris collectors. Most were smaller than this - just the size for Parisian parlors.
This was the first painting purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts after it opened in 1915.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Boudin, Eugène-Louis
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Nationality:
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French
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Life Dates:
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French, 1824 - 1898
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LR in brown: [E.Boudin 1864]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Trouville environs. Beach (as place of recreation).
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Creation Place:
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Europe, France, , ,
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Accession #:
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15.30
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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