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Quay at Villefranche

Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
Lent by: The White Fund (American (Lawrence, MA))
1892

Medium/Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 50.7 x 74.6 cm (19 15/16 x 29 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Deposited by the Trustees of the White Fund, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Accession NumberL-R 1322.12
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Boudin promoted the practice of painting outdoors believing “a work painted directly on the spot has always a strength, a power, a vividness of touch that one doesn’t find again in the studio.”

This painting from late in Boudin’s career showcases a luminous view of ships in a harbor underneath an expanse of sky swept with clouds. Boudin repeatedly visited the French Riviera in his later years, creating scenes of the sea, coastline, and tourists. Villefranche, with its 16th-century stone citadel seen at right, featured in a number of his paintings from the early 1890s.


InscriptionsLower right: E. Boudin 92. / Villefranche 27 fev. 92.
ProvenanceMay 10, 1892, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris; by 1898, with Durand-Ruel, New York; March 22, 1899, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Senator Edward O. Wolcott, Colorado Springs and Washington DC; to his brother the Rev. William E. Wolcott, Lawrence, MA (d. 1911); bequeathed to the White Fund of Lawrence, MA.

On loan to the MFA by the Trustees of the White Fund, Lawrence, MA, since November 13, 1912.