Beach in Trouville Eugene Boudin Description

Eugene Boudin (born Eugène Boudin, July 12, 1824 - August 8, 1898) is a French painter, the predecessor of impressionism. Being a teacher K. Monet, had a significant influence on him. Buden's work is a link between the art of his teachers - representatives of the Barbizon school (the Troyon, Millet, Corot and Theodore Rousseau) and his Impressionist followers.
Buden was born July 12, 1824 in Honfleur, the old port town in Normandy. He studied painting in Le Havre, then in Paris with the famous seascape Jean Isabe. Most of his life, Buden lived in the north of France; visited Belgium, Holland, Italy.
The artist did not get a special education. He used the advice of JF Millet, K. Truayon, T. Couture. The formation of his creative manner was greatly influenced by I. Ionkind's painting. He was the first teacher of K. Monet in Le Havre and had a great influence on the formation of his picturesque method.
Early works of Buden represent bright scenes of fashionable resort life, executed in an impressionistic manner. Later works are mostly marine landscapes without images of people. In landscapes with views of the harbors, he managed to transmit the state of the sky, alarming before the storm or clear and clean; the sea in them is written with wide strokes and is filled with many different ships with complex rigging. Although the artist did not consider himself an Impressionist, he took part in the first exhibition of the Impressionists, which took place in 1874. The poetic works of E. Buden, imbued with damp silvery air and gliding flickering light, had a great influence on the work of many French Impressionists. In the 1860s and 1870s he created his best works ("Harbor and shipyard in Trouville", 1863, National Gallery of Art, Washington, "The Mole in Deauville", 1869, "View of the Antwerp Port", 1872, "Port of Bordeaux", 1874 - all in the Louvre, Paris). A distinctive brand of E. Buden's works is his "beach" compositions, the distinctive features of which are a muted color scale and a fast impulsive smear ("Crinolines on the beach in Trouville", 1869, private collection, Paris, "Woman in white on the beach in Trouville" 1869, Museum of Fine Arts, Le Havre, "The Beach in Trouville", 1871, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, "On the Beach", the beginning of the 1890s, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg).
Recognition came to him when he was already deadly sick. In 1892, Buden was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor. He died in Deauville on August 8, 1898.