Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898)
Sur la plage, coucher de soleil (On the Beach, Sunset)
1865
Oil on wood, 38.1 x 58.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Boudin‘s masterful and convincing representation of light effects, such as the sunset in this picture of 1865, profoundly influenced the young Claude Monet. The two artists worked together on the Normandy coast the previous summer. (MET)