Eugène Boudin, Lot n° 624

ÉTRETAT, LA FALAISE D'AMONT, 1891 Oil on wood. Parquet flooring. 37.3 x 46.2 cm. Signed "E. Boudin" and dated "91" at lower right. Invantar numbers on the reverse and an older label. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) called Boudin the King of Heaven, why is impressively clear in this painting. The picture shows Étretat on the coast of Normandy, which is located northeast of Le Havre. At that time Étretat was still a small fishing village with less than 1000 inhabitants. In the 1890s, Boudin was filled with creative energy and 1890 was a busy year for him because he had many orders and inquiries. And so he turned to his favourite subjects: the sea, the harbour and the beaches. In 1891 Boudin painted a total of four paintings depicting La Falaise d'Amont à Étretat (see Robert Schmit, nos. 2069-2072). Provenance: Cameneentron, Paris. Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, acquired there from the above-mentioned on 26 July 1899. Anonymous auction Paris Hôtel Drouot, 18 February 1908, lot 3rd private collection France, there in succession in private collection Great Britain. Literature: Charles Sterling, Margaretta Salinger, French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. III, XIX-XX Centuries, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1967, p. 134. Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin 1824-1898, Volume III, Paris 1973, p. 113, No. 2870 (illustrated). (12106119) (13) Eugène Boudin, 1824 Honfleur - 1898 Deauville ÉTRETAT , LA FALAISE D'AMONT, 1891 Oil on panel. Parquetted. 37.3 x 46.2 cm. Signed "E. Boudin" lower right and dated "91". Inventory numbers on the reverse and one older label. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) called Boudin the king of the sky and the painting on offer for sale in this lot demonstrates this impressively. This is a depiction of Étretat on the coast of Normandy, northea