Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011042Seascape with Open Sky
About the Artwork
Eugène Boudin is best known for inspiring Impressionist artists, especially a young Claude Monet, to paint outdoors. This drawing belongs to a series that Boudin made throughout much of his career depicting seascapes with dramatic skylines onsite. He favored pastel, the powdery medium used here, for its portability and directness, allowing him to capture the dramatic effects of nature as they shifted.
Inscriptions
inscribed, lower left, in black chalk: - 1860 -; stamped, lower right, in blue ink: artist’s stamp [Lugt 828]
Provenance
1860-1898: Studio of the artist [1824-1898; Lugt 828] 1899: (his posthumous studio sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 20-21, 1899, probably one of nos. 243–54) ?-2002: Dr. Gustav Rau [1922-2002], Stuttgart 2013: (his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, May 25, 2013, no. 650, for the UNICEF Germany Foundation, sold to Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg) 2013-2014: (Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH) 2014-2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 2020-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
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
- 1860
- Medium
- pastel on gray wove paper mounted on thin paperboard
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 21.5 x 28.7 cm (8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.116
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