Description
Eugène Boudin is best known for inspiring Impressionist artists, especially a young Claude Monet, to paint outdoors. This drawing belongs to a series that Boudin made throughout much of his career depicting seascapes with dramatic skylines onsite. He favored pastel, the powdery medium used here, for its portability and directness, allowing him to capture the dramatic effects of nature as they shifted.
Provenance
Studio of the artist [1824-1898; Lugt 828] (1860-1898); (his posthumous studio sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, March 20-21, 1899, probably one of nos. 243–54) (1899); Dr. Gustav Rau [1922-2002], Stuttgart (?-2002); (his sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, May 25, 2013, no. 650, for the UNICEF Germany Foundation, sold to Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg) (2013); (Le Claire Kunst, Hamburg, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH) (2013-2014); Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2014-2020); Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2020-)
Accession Number
2020.116
Medium
pastel on gray wove paper mounted on thin paperboard
Dimensions
Sheet: 21.5 x 28.7 cm (8 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Credit Line
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift