In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
This painting treats a common theme in Eugène Boudin's mature art: ships at harbor. Boudin typically did not depict the busy commercial life or human tasks related to ships; rather, he seemed always to strive for an overall mood of calm, harmony, and light. Although Boudin's brushwork was quite sketchy at this time, he was still able to suggest the complex sails and structures of large vessels. Here he rubbed light tones around the ships' masts, often overlapping the darker lines of the wood and rigging with white or gray tones as if to evoke the passing wind and shifting positions common to nautical life.
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Eugène Louis Boudin — Le Havre , the harbor
Claude Monet — The Seine at Rouen
Eugène Louis Boudin — La jetée à Trouville
Eugène Boudin — Yacht Basin at Trouville-Deauville
Stanislas Lépine — Le Port de Caen
Eugène Louis Boudin — Navires dans le Port à Honfleur
Wassily Kandinsky — Odessa, Port
Eugène Louis Boudin — Venice–Seascape at the Giudecca
Eugène Boudin — Ship on the Touques
Jacob Maris — Townscape with a Domed Church
Claude Monet — Bateaux dans le port de Honfleur
Claude Monet — Boat Lying at Low Tide
