Currently not on view
Venice–Seascape at the Giudecca,
1895
Eugène Boudin, 1824–1898; born Honfleur, France; died Deauville, France
y1986-72
Boudin is most famous for his scenes of fashionable Normandy seaside resorts, painted in the 1860s, but he also travelled abroad. Venice offered his favorite motifs--sea and sky. A large sailing ship and small fishing boats are moored at the Giudecca, the island across from Piazza San Marco. The Dominican church Santa Maria del Rosario and Andrea Palladio’s masterpiece Il Redentore beyond it furnish topographical references, but the reflections in water and the cloud-covered sky dominate the scene and are the real subjects.
Information
Title
Venice–Seascape at the Giudecca
Dates
1895
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
37.1 x 50 cm (14 5/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Clinton Wilder, Class of 1943
Object Number
y1986-72
Place Made
Europe, France
Place Depicted
Europe, Italy, Venice, La Giudecca
Signatures
Signed and dated, lower right: Venis./E. Boudin 95
Reference Numbers
Schmit 3426
Culture
Type
Subject
Edouard Latil, Paris (until 1931; sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 14, 1931, lot 4); ?anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, June 14, 1967, lot A; Professor Lamy, Paris (either before or after the 1967 sale); Clinton Wilder, New York (until 1986; bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum).
- Robert Schmit, Eugene Boudin, 1824-1898, (Paris: Schmit, 1973)., 126, no. 347
- Mahonri Sharp Young and Katherine Wallace Paris, Louis Eugene Boudin: precursor of Impressionism, (Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1976)., no. 2 (illus.)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 48
- Anne-Marie Bergeret-Gourbin, Laurent Manoeuvre, Shunsuke Kijima and Mie-kenritsu Bijutsukan (Tsu), Boudin et les peintres à Honfleur, (Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1996)., cat. no. 45; p. 89 (illus.)
