Eugène Louis BOUDIN (Honfleur 1824- Deauville 1898)

Breton Village (Finistère), 1856 Oil on non-parqueted one-board panel 30 x 46 cm Signed and dated lower left E Boudin 1856 Provenance : Succession Boudin par Félicité Emma Private collection Bibliography : Robert et Manuel Schmit, Eugène Boudin,1824 - 1898, second supplement, 1993, n° 3878, reproduced "Boudin interprets nature in compositions that are always admirably balanced, full of measure and harmony; his work is a great collection of poems vibrating with all his sincerity, all his purity, all his probity". Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Paris, 1973, p. XV. Throughout his career as a painter, Eugène Boudin repeatedly depicted countryside landscapes, but above all numerous harbors, ships and beaches on various French and European coasts. Boudin's work particularly celebrates the coastal towns of Brittany and Normandy. Among his favorite places, the tip of Finistère inspired Village breton of 1856 and Environ de Faou 1870-1873, which we are presenting for sale.