Eugène Boudin - Trouville, marée basse (Touville, Low Tide) [c.1872-73]

            Depicting the port of Trouville-sur-Mer, in Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, the present work is a stunning and graceful testament to Boudin’s favourite subject and to his mature style. Following the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, there was a struggle to understand and define the new national identity within France, and this struggle very much informed Boudin’s artistic pursuits. The country had lost the territories of Alsace and parts of Lorraine to the German Empire, significantly altering the country’s borders, topography and culture, and at this time a universal education system inclusive of French geography was established, forcing the citizenry to grapple with the essential question of what it meant to be French. Landscape painting within France was elevated to a status of even greater importance, and indeed the many seascapes and harbour scenes painted by Boudin in the final decades of the nineteenth century may be viewed as an exploration of this concern. Depicting the delineation between land and sea, coastal imagery was of great import not only for what it allowed Boudin to achieve aesthetically, in exploring and rendering myriad and evolving atmospheric conditions, but also as a visual representation of France’s geographical boundaries at a time when so many of its people felt themselves unmoored.

[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on canvas, 36.5 x 57.8 cm]

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Taken on: March 30, 2016

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