Eugène Boudin was a French landscape and marine painter from Honfleur, one of the first to paint out of doors, and an early mentor of the young Claude Monet. He spent most of his life on the Normandy coast, painting fashionable crowds on the beaches of Trouville and Deauville and harbours and boats under great luminous skies, which led Corot to call him the king of skies. He showed in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. The National Gallery in London and the Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux in Le Havre hold important works, and the Bowes Museum in County Durham has his paintings too.
Eugène Boudin
Painter of beaches and skies; forerunner of Impressionism
- Born
- 12 July 1824, Honfleur, France
- Died
- 8 August 1898, Deauville, France
Where to see their work
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Reflections, Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester
Until 3 January 2027
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Impressions of Light: Masterpieces from MuMa Le Havre and The Bowes Museum, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Until 14 March 2027
Further reading: Wikipedia