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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.118
People
Louis-Eugène Boudin, French (Honfleur 1824 - 1898 Deauville)
Title
A Canal at Abbeville
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Un Canal à Abbeville
Alternate Title: Canal at Abbeville
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1894
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228963

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
32.4 x 41 cm (12 3/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: E. Boudin 94
  • inscription: on back of panel, handwritten in black ink: Boudin no. 2131 / Un Canal à / Abbeville / MODD
  • inscription: on back of panel, in graphite: D.R.N.Y. / 2131 / Photo / A297
  • inscription: on back of panel, handwritten in black ink: A [over] 192
  • label: on back of panel, handwritten in black ink: A297
  • label: on back of panel: Yamato Transport
  • exhibition label: on back of panel, printed in black: [Wertheim tour label]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Samuel Putnam Avery, New York, sold; to [Durand Ruel, New York], 1899, sold; to Allston Burr, 1906, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Allston Burr
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.118
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Schmit (Paris, France, 1973), tome III, no. 3237, p. 242, repr. in b/w
  • 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; repr. as no. 362
  • 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. 2, p. 34

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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