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Mrs. Peter Pleydell-Bouverie

British

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A dozen men, women, and children walk, stand, or sit on a waterside wharf that spans this horizontal painting. A jetty stretches into the distance at a right angle, starting to the left of center. Dozens more people pack the jetty. The people close to us all appear to have pale skin. The men wear suits and hats in brown or black, and the women wear long hoop skirts, capes, and hats, some with veils, in shades of sky blue, red, gray, or mustard yellow. A man and woman sit on an ice-blue bench near a solitary streetlamp at the center of the composition. A small brown dog runs toward the bench from the right, and a black and white dog sniffs the ground to the left. Facing away from us, a man and woman lean onto a white fence at the water’s edge near the entry to the jetty. A dock is across a strip of topaz-blue water, where a sailboat kicks up some white ripples. Two flag-topped masts rise beyond the crowded jetty, and a steampipe between them pours charcoal-gray smoke into the pale blue sky. Paler gray clouds line the top edge of the painting, and a loose band of white clouds lines the horizon, which comes about a quarter of the way up the composition. The scene is loosely painted so people’s features and many details are indistinct. The artist signed and dated the lower right, corner, “E. Boudin. 63.”
Eugène Boudin, Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.9

Jetty and Wharf at Trouville

Eugène Boudin · 1863 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.9

About two dozen men and women sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy expanse around pockets of water under a slate-blue sky that fills the top two-thirds of this horizontal landscape painting. Most of the people sit with their backs to us but the faces we can see suggest they all have light skin. The people gather in a loose crowd that crosses the left two-thirds of the composition. The women wear dark hats and long dresses with full skirts, their shoulders wrapped in shawls in black, red, dark yellow, or cream white. The men also wear hats, most of them black bowler hats, and suits in black or pecan brown. A few women hold up blue parasols in harvest gold, slate blue, teal, or gray. Two women and a man sit on the sand to the right. Three changing huts stand behind the group across the left half, and two brown horses stand at the water’s edge nearby. Three poles march into the distance to the right near where more people gather across a pocket of water. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, “E. Boudin – 65.”
Eugène Boudin, Bathing Time at Deauville, 1865, oil on wood, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1983.1.8

Bathing Time at Deauville

Eugène Boudin · 1865 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1983.1.8