1942.205: Antwerp: View of the Port from the Tête de Flandres

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.205

People

Louis-Eugène Boudin, French (Honfleur 1824 - 1898 Deauville)

Title

Antwerp: View of the Port from the Tête de Flandres

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Port d'Anvers, vu de la Tête de Flandres
Former Title: View of the Port of Antwerp
Former Title: View of Antwerp, the Tête de Flandres

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1871

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230321

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on cradled panel

Dimensions

37.5 x 60 x 3.7 cm (14 3/4 x 23 5/8 x 1 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.l.: E. Boudin / Anvers 1871
• inscription: l.l.: Anvers

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Viguier, Paris, sold; [his sale, Galerie George Petit, Paris. May 4, 1906, Catalogue no. 8] sold; to [Galerie Georges Petit, Paris] sold, [Collection Georges Petit, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 4, 1921]. Dr. Collet, Paris.
[Wildenstein & Company, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, (March 2, 1940-1942) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.


Notes:
Annotated catalogue of 1906 sale suggests Petit bought painting at Viguier sale.

Winthrop paid $4800.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.205

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Boudin Sale, auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, January 23, 1878), no. 24
• [Unidentified Sale], auct. cat., Hôtel Drouot (Paris, France, December 1, 1899), no. 5
• Ch. Viguier Sale, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, May 4, 1906), no. 8, repr.
• Sale Collection Georges Petit, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, France, March 4, 1921), no. 53, repr.
• Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
• Georges Jean-Aubry, La Vie et l'oeuvre d'apres les letters et les documents inedits d'Eugene Boudin, Idees et Calendes (Neuchatel, Switzerland, 1968)
• Robert Schmit, Eugène Boudin, 1824-1898, Schmit (Paris, France, 1973), Tome I, p. 243, no. 667, 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. 360

Exhibition History

• Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944

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