1864
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dominant colour
The Beach at Deauville is a 1864 unspecified by Eugène Boudin, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a sandy beach dotted with people in fancy hats and long dresses, a few umbrellas, and an empty chair tipped on its side. Boudin painted this spot over and over in the 1860s, when rich Parisians started taking holidays by the sea. That tipped chair feels like a real gust of wind just blew through—no posed drama, just a quick, breezy moment. If you like this loose, sunlit look, try more paintings of france, 19th century, mod euro.
During the 1860s, Boudin executed many paintings and watercolors representing well-to-do tourists and vacationers enjoying seaside resorts in Normandy, principally Trouville and Deauville. In this scene, the informally posed figures suggest a sense of relaxation and intimacy. The overturned chair in the foreground underscores the impression of a casually observed moment, as though a sea breeze or a quick departure by its former occupant has upended it. The majority of Boudin's small oil paintings of beach scenes of the 1860s were executed on wood panel. After laying down a thin white ground,…
Boudin evokes the feeling of wind by painting the fluttering blue dress, the beach walker leaning to the left, the whitecaps on the water, and the angle of the sails on the boat in the distance.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Eugène Louis Boudin (French: ; 12 July 1824 – 8 August 1898) was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors.
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