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Women Washing Clothes at Etretat, ca. 1890 - ca. 1894

  • oil paint, panel
  • 23 x 35.5 cm
  • Inv. 1914-AF

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Eugène Boudin was born in 1824, the year in which the exhibition at the Paris Salon was held that would be of great significance for the awareness of the Barbizon School. At this Salon, French Romantic artists such as Delacroix and Géricault and English landscape painters such as Bonington and Constable were exhibited. These confirmed the Barbizon painters in their new vision of landscape painting and confirmed the split between the classics and the moderns. Boudin thus began his career as a painter at a time when modern landscape painters had already made their mark on French painting. Their influence is great and Boudin also undergoes the inspirational effect of these artists. As the son of a skipper, he preferred painting seascapes, in which great attention was paid to the large expanse of sky with clouds above the water and to the light that covered the entire landscape. Under the influence of Isabey, Boudin produced a whole series of beach scenes from the 1860s onwards, mainly populated by bourgeois people who spent their leisure time on the coast. But less well-to-do people such as fishermen and fisherwomen also deserve his attention, as is shown in Washerwomen at Etretat. This work was made in the last decade of his life. Typical of many such paintings is the division of the composition into three horizontal, parallel zones occupied by the sky, the sea and the beach. The sense of the atmospheric effect of natural light heralds Impressionism. The cool, silvery light and the dull, pale tones are enlivened here and there by the white of the hoods and the red in the clothes in the foreground. The simplification of the form and the free, suggestive invoice give this little work, despite its anecdotal element, a broader and more enduring value of expression.

Artist

Eugène Boudin RKD
Honfleur 1824 - Deauville-les-Bains 1898
painters (artists)AAT

Title Women Washing Clothes at Etretat
Date ca. 1890 - ca. 1894
Period 19th century
Location Etretat TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings signatures (names) bottom left: E Boudin
location bottom right: Etretat
inscription on the reverse: [Lav]euses [à] Etretat
seal, stamp on the back of the canvas: G. BERNE-BELLECOUR / TABLEAUX / Bd Malherbe
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1914-AF
Acquisition credit bequest
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1913
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/607/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300117546 seascapes AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
25H landscapes Iconclass
Keywords Iconclass 21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass
22 natural phenomena Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H13 coast Iconclass
25H133 beach Iconclass
25H23 sea (seascape) Iconclass
25H2311 wave Iconclass
25H2322(NORTH SEA) sea (NORTH SEA) Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31AA231 standing figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
31AA233 kneeling figure - AA - female human figure Iconclass
41D221(HEADSCARF) head-gear (HEADSCARF) Iconclass
41D42 laundering Iconclass
61D(FRANCE) geographical names of countries, regions, mountains, rivers, etc. (names of cities and villages excepted) (FRANCE) Iconclass
61E(ETRETAT) names of cities and villages (ETRETAT) Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 30)
Eugene Boudin (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.]
Eugène Boudin, raconté par lui-même : Sa vie, son atelier, son oeuvre / Gilbert De Knyff. - Paris : Mayer, 1976
Eugène Boudin : peintures et dessins ; Catalogue raisonné / Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Laurent Manoeuvre. - Honfleur : Musée Eugène Boudin, 1996 ; Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 1996 (p. 154-181)
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 147 (ill.))
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) : A l'aube de l'impressionnisme (Tentoonstelling Lausanne, Fondation de l'Hermitage, 07.07.2000-15.10.2000) / Rudolf Koella, Juliane Cosandier, Christian Bührle. - Milan : Skira, 2000 (p. 10-33)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 77 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
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