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Eugène Louis Boudin

Seaside, Port of Honfleur

c. 1860
Pastel on blue wove paper
18.5 × 25.9 cm (7.3 × 10.2 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

Boudin was a native of Honfleur, one of the most picturesque harbor communes in the French region of Normandy. Self-taught, he started experimenting with pastel in the 1850s. This sort of landscape, likely made en plein air, would prove extremely influential to the young Claude Monet.

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