Painting Collection Eugène Boudin On the River Meuse (1824—1898) Reverential scenes of water, sky, and beach life were a favorite motif of French painter Eugène Boudin. A native of the harbor town of Honfleur on the Normandy coast, Boudin traveled regularly to his favorite sites in France, Belgium, and Holland, making sketches and detailed notes of the scenes and climates which he experienced. Impressed by the sincere landscape paintings of the Barbizon artists as well as by the poetic views and blonde tonality of Corot's work, Boudin was committed to drawing and painting directly from nature, en plein air. Like Corot, he often returned to work in the studio where his finished paintings, remarkably, retained the freshness of his original studies. |
  
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