Beach with Fishing Boats (recto); Landscape with Farmer Plowing a Field (verso) - Eugène Louis Boudin

Gift of Kate L. Brewster

"Beach with Fishing Boats (recto); Landscape with Farmer Plowing a Field (verso)" by Eugène Louis Boudin (1870/79) Pastel on (recto) and charcoal (verso) on grayish-tan wove paper.

Commentary

"Beach with Fishing Boats (recto); Landscape with Farmer Plowing a Field (verso)" by Eugène Louis Boudin (1870/79) invites a close look at how form and feeling work together. Themes to notice include drawings (vi sual works). This piece is held in the source collection's Prints and Drawings collection. Eugène Louis Boudin is the artist behind this work. A useful anchor for reading the piece: Eugène Louis Boudin French, 1824-1898. The work is cataloged within a France cultural context. How to look at this work: It is cataloged as drawings (visual works), which gives a clue to how the museum frames the object. Its medium (Pastel on (recto) and charcoal (verso) on grayish-tan wove paper) affects texture, durability, and how detail reads at different distances. Its listed dimensions (19.5 × 30.7 cm (7 11/16 × 12 1/8 in.)) suggest how intimate or monumental it may feel in person. Subject cues from the catalog include drawings (visual works). Compare this reading with the museum record at the source collection: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113442

Sources: Art Institute of Chicago; Art Institute of Chicago / Public Records; Art Institute of Chicago Collection Data