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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1981.59
People
Louis-Eugène Boudin, French (Honfleur 1824 - 1898 Deauville)
Title
Boats at Anchor and Beachhead
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1871
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227918

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
40.9 x 65.8 cm (16 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: E. Boudin. 71
  • label: reverse of frame, at top, printed: J. Eastman Chase / Paintings and Frames / 423 Boylston St. / Boston
  • exhibition label: reverse of frame, at top, printed and handwritten: Doll and Richards / 140 Newbury Street / Boston, Mass. / Paintings, Sculpture, Prints-- Paintings Restored / Frames / [handwritten in graphite:] C42544
  • exhibition label: upper member of stretcher, handwritten?: MFA TL 15,962 / Restored by Richard M. Finlayson / Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Emmons, Jr. / Manchester, Mass. Jan. 1973

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Helen B. Emmons, Bequest to Gardner Emmons.
Gardner Emmons, By descent from Helen B. Emmons, Gift to Fogg Art Museum, 1981.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Gardner Emmons
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
1981.59
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 99, cat. 359, ill.
  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1990), repr. in color, no. 1, p. 32

Exhibition History

  • The Maurice Wertheim Collection and Selected Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings and Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Isetan Department Store, Tokyo, 03/01/1990 - 04/10/1990; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, 04/14/1990 - 05/13/1990

Verification Level

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