Born:
12 July 1824; Honfleur, France
Died:
8 August 1898, Deauville, France
Nationality:
French
Art
Movement: Impressionism
Field:
painting
Influenced
by: Eugène Isabey, Johan Barthold Jongkind
Influenced
on: Claude Monet
Eugène Boudin was one of the first
French landscape painters to paint outdoors, born on July 12, 1824 and died on
August 8, 1898.
Born in Honfleur, Boudin was the
son of a harbor pilot and worked at a steamboat between Le Havre and Honfleur
when he was 10 years old. In 1835 his family moved to Le Havre, where Boudin's
father opened a store selling stationery and picture frames. He worked at his
father's store and later opened his own small store.
In his shop, in which pictures were
framed, Boudin was able to meet artists working in the area and also exhibited
the paintings of Constant Troyon and Jean-François Millet at his store, who
encouraged Boudin to follow an artistic career.
At the age of 22, he gave up
his business and began his career as a full-time painter, and traveled to Paris
the following year and then to Flanders. In 1850 he was able to move to Paris
with a scholarship, where he enrolled as a student in the studio of Eugène
Isabey and worked as a copyist at the Louvre.
He often returned to Normandy to
paint to supplement his income and regularly traveled to Brittany from 1855. On
January 14, 1863, he married Marie-Anne Guédès, a 28-year-old Breton woman in
Le Havre, and set up home in Paris.
The 17th century Dutch masters had
a profound influence on Boudin, and when he met Johan Barthold Jongkind, a
Dutch painter who had already gained a reputation in the French art world, he
was encouraged to paint outdoors by Jongkind.
In 1859, Boudin met Gustave
Courbet, who introduced him the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire was
also the first critic to have brought the public's attention to Boudin's
talents when he debuted at the Paris Salon in 1859.
In 1858, Boudin became a friend of
young Claude Monet and convinced him at the age of 18 to give up caricature and
become a landscape painter. The two remained friends for a lifetime, and Monet
later paid tribute to the influence he had received from Boudin.
After his wife's death in 1889,
Boudin spent every winter in southern France due to his health problems and
regularly traveled to Venice from 1892 to 1895. In 1898, he realized that his
life was almost over, so he returned to his home in Deauville and died on
August 8. According to his will, Boudin was buried at the Saint-Vincent
Cemetery in Montmartre, Paris.
FAMOUS
WORKS
A beach scene
Cayeux, windmill in the countryside, morning
Market at Trouville
River near Dunkirk
The Manet family picnicking
RELATED
ARTISTS
Claude Monet
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