Beach Scene
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mrs. D. Z. Norton
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Beach Scene

c. 1865–1867
Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898) visual detail
ArtistEugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
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French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929). The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). CMA. French Art since Eighteen Hundred (1929), CMA Bulletin 16 (1929): 162. Art Institute of Chicago. Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Eugène Boudin (1935-36), no. 21. cma. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), 99, no. 252. Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum. French Impressionist Landscape Painting (1936), no. 8. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute. Pictures of Everyday Life: Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900 (1954), no. 76 (repr.). Denver Art Museum. Clothes Make the Man (1956), no catalogue.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

On a beach where a strong breeze moves off the water from left to right, figures of French women, men, and children in chic Parisian dress stroll, sit, chat, or take donkey rides. The activities depicted (promenades, socializing, riding, sandbox playing) are the same as those enjoyed by residents of London or Paris. At the right, the dog suggests that these are vacationers rather than tourists seeking to recreate their urban pastimes at the seashore. Painted outdoors, this composition is typical of Boudin's beach scenes in the 1860s in its low-lying horizon, cloud-filled sky, and figures ranged across the middle ground. By scattering the figures over the surface and not closing off the scene with framing elements, the artist created the impression of a partial view of a much larger scene.

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