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La Touques near Deauville
Eugène Louis Boudin · 1883
Provenance
Ownership history
- Oscar Schmitz, Dresden and Zurich (died June 11, 1933) purchased in 1899 [according to Paris 1936]; Georges Wildenstein Galerie by 1936 [see Paris 1936 and Daniel Wildenstein, Yves Stavridès, Marchands d’art (Plon, 1999), p. 87]. The Hon. W.S. Phillips, London. Sale, Christie’s, July 7-11, 1961, lot 49 (ill.) to B. Lyons, London [according to Estelle Gittins at Christie's, London, phone conversation, March 6, 2001]; sale, Christie’s, London, July 9, 1965, lot 8A (ill.); sold to Creswell, London. Wildenstein and Co., New York; bought by Frank H. Woods, Lake Forest, Illinois, October 7, 1968; given to the Art Institute, 1980.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Dresden, Internationale Kunst Ausstellung, June-September 1926, p. 33, cat. 71.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Oskar Schmitz: Französische Malerei des XIX. Jahrhunderts, 1932, cat. 20.
- Paris, Wildenstein and Co., La Collection Oscar Schmitz, 1936, p. 22, cat. 3.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985, no.; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986, cat. 26 (ill.).
- Glasgow, Glasgow Museum, Boudin at Trouville, November 20, 1992–Febraury 28, 1993, cat. 87; London, Courtauld Institute Galleries, March 15–May 2, 1993.
- Rome, Complesso Monumentale dell Vittoriano, From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, 6 March 2010 – 29 June 2010, cat. 64, La Touques near Deauville, pp. 212, 213.
Literature
Published references
- Paul Fechter, “Die Sammlung Schmitz,” Kunst und Künstler VIII, 1910, p. 19 (ill.), 20.
- Karl Scheffler, “Die Sammlung Oscar Schmitz,” Kunst und Künstler XIX, 1921, p. 188.
- Ruth L. Benjamin, Eugène Boudin (New York,1937), p. 183.
- G. Jean-Aubry, Eugène Boudin d’après les lettres les lettres et les documents inédits (Neuchâtel, 1968) p. 142 (color ill.).
- Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898 vol 1 (Paris, 1973), p. 170, cat. 1730 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1979–80 (Chicago, 1980), p. 31.
- Jean Selz, E. Boudin (New York, 1982), no. 4, p. 72.
- Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionist (Chicago and New York, 1987), p. 72 (ill.).
- Vivien Hamilton, Boudin at Trouville (London, 1992), p. 132, cat. 87 (ill.).
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