1880
oil
panel
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Washerwomen at the Edge of the Pond is a 1880 oil by Eugène Boudin, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see women washing clothes by a pond in this painting. The women are doing everyday tasks, which was a common theme in many paintings from this time. This focus on ordinary life is interesting because it shows what daily life was like back then. Check out the technique of glazing to learn more about how artists like Eugène Louis Boudin created their works.
Diot, Paris [according to Schmit, 1973]. Leicester Galleries, London [according to label on reverse]. G. H. Cross, London; his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, March 28, 1973, lot 3, to Arte Moderna. Galerie M. Rousso, Paris [according to a letter from William Hobson Green dated January 24, 1977(for 1978) in curatorial file; stated that he had acquired the picture from Rousso “several years ago”]; sold to William Hobson Green, River Forest, Illinois; given to the Art Institute, 1978.
Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824–1898 (Paris, 1973), vol. 2, p. 67, no. 1436, ill.
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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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