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Source Description
From the early 1860s, Boudin depicted elegant tourists on the Normandy coast. Trouville had recently been established as a fashionable summer resort with its own casino and luxury hotels. Boudin's attitude toward his subjects was not necessarily sympathetic, and in 1867, he described such scenes of upper-class enjoyment as "a disgusting masquerade" and his subjects as "ghastly parasites." This particular scene may have been painted in September 1871, after he had returned from Antwerp, where he had sought refuge during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
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Document identity
localId
37203
label
Trouville
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
37203
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Trouville
description
From the early 1860s, Boudin depicted elegant tourists on the Normandy coast. Trouville had recently been established as a fashionable summer resort with its own casino and luxury hotels. Boudin's attitude toward his subjects was not necessarily sympathetic, and in 1867, he described such scenes of upper-class enjoyment as "a disgusting masquerade" and his subjects as "ghastly parasites." This particular scene may have been painted in September 1871, after he had returned from Antwerp, where he had sought refuge during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
provenance
Cyrus J. Lawrence, New York; Sale, American Art Association, Mendelssohn Hall, New York, January 21-22, 1910, no. 55; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase [under the alias of Henry Chester]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1871
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
18
height
46.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 7 1/16 x W: 18 1/4 in. (18 x 46.4 cm); Framed H: 16 5/8 × W: 27 1/4 × D: 3 in. (42.23 × 69.22 × 7.62 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on panel
creator_ids
8312
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
1955
366
2749
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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