Seaside, Port of Honfleur
Eugène Louis Boudin
c. 1860
Medium
Pastel on blue wove paper
Dimensions
18.5 × 25.9 cm (7 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
187703
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Boudin was a native of Honfleur, one of the most picturesque harbor communes in the French region of Normandy. Self-taught, he started experimenting with pastel in the 1850s. This sort of landscape, likely made en plein air, would prove extremely influential to the young Claude Monet.