Seaside, Port of Honfleur
Eugène Boudin
1860
- Medium
- Pastel on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)prints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
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.
