The Dock of Deauville (1891): Art, History and Details

The Dock of Deauville (1891) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This painting treats a common theme in Eugène Boudin's mature art: ships at harbor. Boudin typically did not depict the busy commercial life or human tasks related to ships; rather, he seemed always to strive for an overall mood of calm, harmony, and light. Although Boudin's brushwork was quite sketchy at this time, he was still able to suggest the complex sails and structures of large vessels. Here he rubbed light tones around the ships' masts, often overlapping the darker lines of the wood and rigging with white or gray tones as if to evoke the passing wind and shifting positions common to nautical life.

Object facts

• Title: The Dock of Deauville
• Date: 1891
• Creator attribution: Eugène Boudin (French, 1824–1898)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood panel
• Dimensions: Framed: 80.5 x 116 x 10 cm (31 11/16 x 45 11/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 46.7 x 37.8 cm (18 3/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1939.165

Collection credit

Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., for the Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Milliken, William. "The Coralie Walker Hanna Memorial Collection Gift of Leonard C Hanna." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 6 (June 1939): 84-115

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