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Seascape with Open Sky

1860

Eugène Boudin

(French, 1824–1898)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
pastel on gray wove paper mounted on thin paperboard
Support
Cardboard
Measurements
Sheet: 21.5 x 28.7 cm (8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.116
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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The well-known Parisian critic and writer Charles Baudelaire singled out Eugène Boudin's seascape pastels in a review published around the time this work was made, describing them as characterized by "meteorological beauty."

Description

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.
A pastel drawing depicts a seascape, the water taking up the lower sixth, with the remainder of the drawing depicting a sky crowded with fluffy white clouds. The sea is created with strokes of gray, blue, and cream with a sailboat in the lower right corner. The clouds, detailed with gray and white, cluster in streaks toward the center, before becoming more sparse and fluffy near the top.

Seascape with Open Sky

1860

Eugène Boudin

(French, 1824–1898)
France, 19th century

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