Le Bassin de L'Eure au Havre

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Eugene-Louis Boudin
French, 1825-1898

Le Bassin de L'Eure au Havre, 1884

Oil on canvas
Purchased, 1930
Museum Number 1-1930

This is one of Boudin's many views of the port of Le Havre. Trained in Paris, he specialised in marine subjects. His fresh and luminous paintings with freely applied brushwork, influenced the Impressionists, especially the young Claude Monet. Boudin participated in their first Paris show of 1874.