Tag: landscape

Scène de plage à Trouville (1873)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) 1873 Oil on wood, 15.5 x 29.9 cm National Gallery, London Boudin started off painting seascapes, but he found a niche in the 1860s producing small beach scenes. These showed…

Scène de plage à Trouville (1870-1874)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) c.1870–1874 Oil on wood, 18.2 x 46.2 cm National Gallery, London By the mid nineteenth century, the Normandy coastal town Trouville had developed into smart seaside resort, attracting well-to-do holidaymakers…

Scène de plage à Trouville (1860-1870)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage à Trouville (Beach Scene, Trouville) c.1860–1870 Oil on wood, 21.6 x 45.8 cm National Gallery, London This small panel records a bright but cloudy day as a group of well-dressed visitors gather around a flagpole…

Plage à Trouville (1890s)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1890s Oil on canvas, 35.6 x 58.1 cm National Gallery, London Boudin is best remembered today for his paintings of crowds of affluent holidaymakers on the beaches of Trouville and Deauville, painted…

Village par une rivière (1867)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Village par une rivière (Village by a River) probably 1867 Oil on wood. 35.6 x 58.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin frequently painted landscapes along the coast of Brittany. This view of the village…

Sur la plage, Dieppe (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage, Dieppe (On the Beach, Dieppe) 1864 Oil on wood, 31.8 x 29.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The changing skies of France‘s Channel coast and the fashionable crowds on the resort beaches…

Sur la plage, coucher de soleil (1865)

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…

Beaulieu, La baie de Fourmis (1892)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Beaulieu, La baie de Fourmis (Beaulieu, The Bay of Fourmis) 1892 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 90.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted in the small town of Beaulieu on the French Riviera in March…

Sur la plage à Trouville (1863)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Sur la plage à Trouville (On the Beach at Trouville) 1863 Oil on wood, 26.7 × 48.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Boudin, a native of Honfleur, began painting scenes of fashionable beach resorts along…

San Lorenzo (1636)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Lorenzo (St Lawrence) 1636 Oil on canvas, 292 x 225 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Saint Lawrence is a splendid example of the austere laconic style of Francisco Zurbarán, who from 1628 was the chief…