EUGÈNE BOUDIN (1824-1898)
Portrieux. Le Môle
signed and dated 'E. Boudin 1873.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
31.8 x 46.5cm (12 1/2 x 18 5/16in).
Painted in 1873
Footnotes:
Provenance
Galerie Félix Gérard Père, Paris (by 1925).
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 November 1928, lot 44.
Galerie Franz Kleinberger, Paris.
Private collection.
Galerie Romanet, Paris.
Mrs Gildesgame Collection, London; her sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 October 1993, lot 5.
Private collection, Ireland and UK (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Le salon des artistes français, 1 May 1874, no. 230.

Literature
R. Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Vol. I, Paris, 1973, no. 909 (illustrated p. 323).

There is paper tape along all four extreme outer edges. Central horizontal stretcher mark visible, with two associated fine lines of hairline craquelure. One fine scratch (approx. 1cm) to the horizon in the lower left quadrant. One possible spot of retouching to the lower left quadrant. One tiny pinprick white accretion to the upper left corner. Some scattered fine horizontal lines of craquelure, with some very tiny spots of surface dirt visible.



Examination under Ultra-Violet light reveals a small spot of fluorescence to the aforementioned retouching.



Subject to the foregoing it is our opinion that the work appears to be in generally good condition.