Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville, 1864
Eugène-Louis Boudinexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
The William Hood Dunwoody Fundexpand_more 15.30
On View in Gallery 321expand_more
This is one of Eugène Boudin's many paintings of the Normandy coast in northern France. Around 1862 Boudin began working at Trouville, a summer resort served by the new train lines from Paris. There, well-to-do city dwellers enjoyed a new type of vacation: the beach holiday. Some people actually swam (wearing the daring new bathing costumes), but many gathered just to enjoy the sea air and socialize. Boudin's beach scenes, a new subject for painting, sold rapidly to Paris collectors. Most were smaller than this - just the size for Parisian parlors.
This was the first painting purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Art after it opened in 1915.
Details
- Title
- Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville
- Artist Life
- 1824 - 1898
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 15.30
- Curator Approved
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