Eugène Boudin
Brittany: Fishermen’s Wives Waiting at the Shore

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Artist Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)French, 1824–1898

CultureFrench

Titles

Brittany: Fishermen’s Wives Waiting at the Shore

Date1872

PlaceFrance

MediumOil on wood

DimensionsCanvas or panel: 15 1/4 × 22 in. (38.7 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.270

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

222 Beck Galleries

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European Art, Beck Collection

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Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceHecquet family collection, Grenoble, France [1]; [sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, "Tableaux Modernes," June 21, 1966, lot 191, as “Femmes de pêcheurs au bord de la mer,” illus.] [2]; purchased by Mr. John A. and Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1966 [3]; given to the MFAH, 1998.

[1] See Schmit, Robert. Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Paris: L’Imprimerie Union à Paris, 1973, cat. no. 789, p. 283, illus., that records the early ownership by: Hecquet, Grenoble.

[2] The work is illustrated twice, in both color and black-and-white, in the 1966 sales catalogue. [MFAH Archives, A J Beck Object Files, MS 47, Box 5, Boudin-accessed by Robert McD. Parker, April 2024.]

[3] See correspondence to Mr. John A. Beck and a sales invoice for this purchase issued by Maîtres Maurice Rheims and Philippe Rheims of the Etudes Rheims et Laurin on 22 June 1966. The work was purchased directly from the June 1966 sale as cited. [MFAH object file- accessed by Robert McD. Parker, April 2024.]

Exhibition HistoryEXHIBITED: Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck", 1974, pp. 18-19.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

signed and dated lower right: "E. Boudin 72"

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