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AT-00009914The Dock of Deauville
About the Artwork
This painting treats a common theme in Eugène Boudin's mature art: ships at harbor. Boudin typically did not depict the busy commercial life or human tasks related to ships; rather, he seemed always to strive for an overall mood of calm, harmony, and light. Although Boudin's brushwork was quite sketchy at this time, he was still able to suggest the complex sails and structures of large vessels. Here he rubbed light tones around the ships' masts, often overlapping the darker lines of the wood and rigging with white or gray tones as if to evoke the passing wind and shifting positions common to nautical life.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: E. Boudin / 91 Inscribed lower left: Deauville
Provenance
Gustave Hoche, Paris. His sale (vente Gustave H. . .), Paris, Drouot, 22 February 1895 (lot 13), ff 900 (perhaps bought in) (price according to Frick Library copy). His sale (vente de M. X . . .), Paris, Drouot, 18 March 1898 (lot 11), ff 560. Coralie Walker Hanna, Cleveland. Gift of Leonard C. Hanna to the CMA in 1939.
Exhibition history
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). Louis Boudin: Precurser of Impressionism. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (organizer) (October 8-November 21, 1976); Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (December 2, 1976-January 9, 1977); Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg, FL (January 25-February 25, 1977); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (March 11-April 24, 1977); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (May 7-June 12, 1977). Gallant Ships and Bully Boys. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-August 3, 1986).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- Framed: 80.5 x 116 x 10 cm (31 11/16 x 45 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 46.7 x 37.8 cm (18 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 1939.165
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