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Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from San Giorgio
Eugène Louis Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
1895
Medium/Technique
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
46.3 x 65.4 cm (18 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession Number25.111
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
Boudin went to Venice for the first time in 1892 at the age of sixty-eight and returned two more times in the next few years. He made at least three versions of this particular view looking toward the recognizable dome of Santa Maria della Salute. Captured at the edge of the sparkling canal, soft puffs of clouds fill the vast expanse of sky, while the bright sun illuminates the brushy reflections in the jewel-toned water.
Catalogue Raisonné
Schmit, 1973 (III): 3397
InscriptionsLower left: Venise 95. / E. Boudin
ProvenanceBy 1899, MM. Allard et Noel (gallery), Paris [see note 1]. By 1919, Robert J. Edwards (d. 1924), Boston; 1925, bequest of Robert J. Edwards to the MFA [see note 2]. (Accession Date: April 2, 1925)
NOTES:
[1] The gallery lent the painting to the "Exposition des oeuvres d'Eugene Boudin," Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January 9-30, 1899, cat. no. 51 (as "Venise, vue prise de San Giorgio, effet du matin, 1895").
[2] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.
NOTES:
[1] The gallery lent the painting to the "Exposition des oeuvres d'Eugene Boudin," Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January 9-30, 1899, cat. no. 51 (as "Venise, vue prise de San Giorgio, effet du matin, 1895").
[2] Siblings Robert (d. 1924), Hannah (d. 1929), and Grace (d. 1938) Edwards were each collectors of art, who seemed to have had joint ownership of the objects in their possession. When Robert died, he bequeathed his collection to the MFA in memory of their mother, Juliana Cheney Edwards. In 1925, after his death, part of his collection was acquired by the Museum, and the remainder went to his sisters, with the understanding that the objects would ultimately be left to the MFA in the collection begun in memory of their mother. The collections of Hannah and Grace were left to the MFA in 1939, following Grace's death. It is not always possible to determine exactly which paintings each sibling had owned.