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Lot 3201 - A218 19th Century Paintings - Friday, 18. September 2026, 04.00 PM

EUGÈNE LOUIS BOUDIN

(Honfleur 1824–1898 Deauville)
Trouville, les jetées, marée basse. 1894.
Oil on panel.
Signed and dated lower left: E. Boudin 94.
27 × 21.7 cm.

Provenance:
- Auction Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 November 1927, lot 45.
- With Galerie Joseph Allard, Paris.
- With Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
- Léonard-Charles Stein collection, Geneva.
- By inheritance, Swiss private collection.

Exhibited:
Paris 1958, Trésors du Musée de Caen et cent tableaux d'Eugène Boudin, Galerie Charpentier, June–September 1958, no. 9 (verso with label).

Literature:
Robert Schmit: Eugène Boudin. 1824–1898, Paris 1973, Vol. 3, p. 264, no. 3295 (with ill.).

The fashionable seaside resort of Trouville on the northern French coast served Eugène Boudin as a retreat from the early 1860s onwards, which the painter visited every summer and captured in numerous paintings. The harbour in particular, with its sailing boats and changing light conditions, offered Boudin an ideal motif for his plein-air painting.

In this charming work, painted by Boudin in 1894 at the height of his artistic career, the artist captures particularly well the maritime atmosphere of the harbour basin with boats at low tide and the cloudy blue sky of Normandy.

CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)

Sold for CHF 100 000 (including buyer's premium)